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Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:25:32 +0100http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/29_June_2007_MDR_EC_SIG_meeting29 June 2007 MDR EC SIG meetinghttp://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/29_June_2007_MDR_EC_SIG_meeting
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:25:32 +0100<p>This joint meeting of the CETIS <a href="/Metadata_and_Digital_Repositories" title="Metadata and Digital Repositories">Metadata and Digital Repositories</a> and <a href="/Educational_Content" title="Educational Content">Educational Content</a> SIGs took place on Friday 29 June 2007 in the Court Senate Suite (in the Collins Building), University of Strathclyde. The focus of the meeting was on the development of innovative ways to create, access, store and use educational content.
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<a name="Meeting_content"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Meeting content</span></h2>
<p>All the presentations form the day are available below, as embedded SlideShare presentations and accompanying MP3 files.
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<a name="David_Davies"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">David Davies</span></h3>
<p>David Davies (Univ. of Warwick) spoke about managing a repository and using Yahoo! Pipes.<br />An <a href="/images/2/23/DavidDavies.mp3" class="internal" title="DavidDavies.mp3">MP3 version is also available</a>.
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<a name="Charles_Duncan"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Charles Duncan</span></h3>
<p>Charles Duncan (Intrallect) gave a presentation on an SRU Open Source Client.<br />An <a href="/images/e/ea/CharlesDuncan.mp3" class="internal" title="CharlesDuncan.mp3">MP3 version is also available</a>.
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<a name="PEDESTAL"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">PEDESTAL</span></h3>
<p>Sue Manuel (Loughborough) spoke about the <a href="http://pedestal.lboro.ac.uk" class="external text" title="http://pedestal.lboro.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">PEDESTAL project</a>.<br />An <a href="/images/c/c5/PEDESTAL.mp3" class="internal" title="PEDESTAL.mp3">MP3 version is also available</a>.
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<a name="DIDET"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">DIDET</span></h3>
<p>Caroline Breslin presented on the <a href="http://www.didet.ac.uk/" class="external text" title="http://www.didet.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">DIDET project</a>.<br />An <a href="/images/8/8b/DIDET.mp3" class="internal" title="DIDET.mp3">MP3 version is also available</a>.
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<p>Michael Gardner (University of Essex) spoke about the <a href="http://chimera70.essex.ac.uk/chimerawiki/index.php/Resource_Browser" class="external text" title="http://chimera70.essex.ac.uk/chimerawiki/index.php/Resource_Browser" rel="nofollow">ResourceBrowser project</a>.<br />An <a href="/images/0/08/ResourceBrowser.mp3" class="internal" title="ResourceBrowser.mp3">MP3 version is also available</a>.
</p><p><embed src="http&#58;//static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=resource-browser4542" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300"></embed>
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<a name="SWORD"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">SWORD</span></h3>
<p>Julie Allinson presented on <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD" rel="nofollow">SWORD</a>.<br />An <a href="/images/2/2e/SWORD.mp3" class="internal" title="SWORD.mp3">MP3 version is also available</a>, as is <a href="http://david.davies.name/weblog/2007/06/30/how-project-sword-restored-my-faith-in-educational-technology/" class="external text" title="http://david.davies.name/weblog/2007/06/30/how-project-sword-restored-my-faith-in-educational-technology/" rel="nofollow">David Davies' blog post</a>.
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<a name="Other_outputs"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Other outputs</span></h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2007/07/03/joint-mdr-and-ec-sig-meeting-29-june/" class="external text" title="http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/sheilamacneill/2007/07/03/joint-mdr-and-ec-sig-meeting-29-june/" rel="nofollow">Sheila's blog post</a>
</li><li> <a href="/images/6/64/20070629_SIG_Meeting_Evaluations_Summary.pdf" class="internal" title="20070629 SIG Meeting Evaluations Summary.pdf">Summary of evaluation forms</a> (PDF)
</li><li> <a href="http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/events/registrations.php?id=40" class="external text" title="http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/events/registrations.php?id=40" rel="nofollow">Delegate list</a>
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http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/13th_July_2005%2C_Loughborough13th July 2005, Loughboroughhttp://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/13th_July_2005%2C_Loughborough
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This meeting was held at Loughborough University. Topics and speakers are listed below:
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<ul><li> Becta Metadata tools - Peter Jackson (Becta) and Rob Tice (Knowledge Integration Ltd)
</li><li> d+ (and d++) - Morag Watson and Robin Taylor (Edinburgh University Library)
</li><li> Jorum update - Kenny Baird (EDINA and Jorum)
</li><li> Curriculum Modelling and a Repository - Ben Ryan (KaiNao Ltd)
</li><li> Connect Portal: Bringing resources and information to the learning and teaching community - Mike Clarke (HE Academy)
</li><li> Repositories in the West Midlands: Emerging Issues - Amber Thomas (University College Worcester)
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http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/10th_March_2005%2C_Edinburgh10th March 2005, Edinburghhttp://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/10th_March_2005%2C_Edinburgh
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This meeting was held at Edinburgh University Library. Presentations are available below.
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<ul><li> <a href="http://mwi.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Documents/2005%20Umbrella%20(MWI).ppt" class="external text" title="http://mwi.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Documents/2005%20Umbrella%20(MWI).ppt" rel="nofollow">Designing workflows for quality assured metadata</a>
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http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/16th_April_2007%2C_Manchester16th April 2007, Manchesterhttp://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/16th_April_2007%2C_Manchester
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The most recent meeting of the <a href="/Metadata_and_Digital_Repository" title="Metadata and Digital Repository">Metadata and Digital Repository</a> SIG focused on <a href="http://dublincore.org/" class="external text" title="http://dublincore.org/" rel="nofollow">Dublin Core</a> work. Most presentation files (slides and audio where available) are available from this page, alongside a summary of each presentation. For a fuller summary of the day, see <a href="#External_links" title="">Pete Johnston's summary</a>.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Presentations"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Presentations</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Dublin_Core_Abstract_Model"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Dublin Core Abstract Model</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#LOM.E2.86.92DC_mapping"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">LOM→DC mapping</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#ePrints_Dublin_Core_Application_Profile"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">ePrints Dublin Core Application Profile</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#News_and_developments"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">News and developments</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#UK_DCMI_affiliate_work_at_UKOLN"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">UK DCMI affiliate work at UKOLN</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Sarah_Currier"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span> <span class="toctext">Sarah Currier</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Rob_Tice"><span class="tocnumber">1.7</span> <span class="toctext">Rob Tice</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Evaluations"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Evaluations</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Delegates"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Delegates</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Date_and_location"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Date and location</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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<a name="Dublin_Core_Abstract_Model"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Dublin Core Abstract Model</span></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/people/petejohnston/" class="external text" title="http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/people/petejohnston/" rel="nofollow">Pete Johnston</a> (of <a href="http://www.eduserv.org" class="external text" title="http://www.eduserv.org" rel="nofollow">Eduserv</a>) presented an introduction to the <a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/" class="external text" title="http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/" rel="nofollow">Dublin Core Abstract Model</a>. During his talk, Pete highlighted the context and motivation for the DCAM, expanding into application profiles and encoding guidelines. Finally, Pete put forward his thoughts on DC in 2007. <br />
<b>Files:</b> <a href="/images/5/5a/2007-04-16-dcam.ppt" class="internal" title="2007-04-16-dcam.ppt">PPT</a> &#124; <a href="/images/8/8e/01_Dublin_Core_Abstract_Model.mp3" class="internal" title="01 Dublin Core Abstract Model.mp3">MP3</a> &#124; <a href="/images/1/16/2007-04-16-dcam-mp3.ppt" class="internal" title="2007-04-16-dcam-mp3.ppt">PPT+MP3</a>
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<a name="LOM.E2.86.92DC_mapping"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">LOM→DC mapping</span></h3>
<p>Pete followed up his initial presentation with a short update on LOM→DC mapping, advising there had been little change since the similar presentation in <a href="/28th_June_2006%2C_Bath" title="28th June 2006, Bath">June 2006's SIG meeting</a>.<br />
<b>Files:</b> <a href="/images/6/6f/2007-04-16-lom-dcam.ppt" class="internal" title="2007-04-16-lom-dcam.ppt">PPT</a> &#124; <a href="/images/a/a1/02_LOM_DC_mapping.mp3" class="internal" title="02 LOM DC mapping.mp3">MP3</a> &#124; <a href="/images/9/9a/2007-04-16-lom-dcam-mp3.ppt" class="internal" title="2007-04-16-lom-dcam-mp3.ppt">PPT+MP3</a>
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<a name="ePrints_Dublin_Core_Application_Profile"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">ePrints Dublin Core Application Profile</span></h3>
<p>Julie Allinson (<a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">UKOLN</a>) spoke about the <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Profile" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Profile" rel="nofollow">Dublin Core Application Profile</a> for Scholarly Works (ePrints). Julie's presentation covered the background, model, application profile and vocabularies, and community acceptance, among other topics.<br />
<b>Files:</b> <a href="/images/9/92/Eprints-ap-cetismdrsig-2007-04-17.ppt" class="internal" title="Eprints-ap-cetismdrsig-2007-04-17.ppt">PPT</a> &#124; <a href="/images/a/a7/03_ePrints_Dublin_Core_Application_Profile.mp3" class="internal" title="03 ePrints Dublin Core Application Profile.mp3">MP3</a> &#124; <a href="/images/1/12/Eprints-ap-cetismdrsig-2007-04-17-mp3.ppt" class="internal" title="Eprints-ap-cetismdrsig-2007-04-17-mp3.ppt">PPT+MP3</a>
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<a name="News_and_developments"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">News and developments</span></h3>
<ul><li> IMS Project Under Formation SIG on Federated Architectures (FA PUF SIG?) - drawing up a charter to describe specification activity, centred around a cookbook of best practice in area of repository interoperability, federation, etc.
</li><li> JISC CETIS Codebash (7th-8th June, Bolton, attendance by invite) - bring together technical people for two days and try to get interoperability happening, identifying problems that arise. Previous codebashes on content packaging involved reading/exporting CPs and trying to get a CP that could be read in by every application. Possible area could include assessment but not yet finalised.
</li><li> The next SIG meeting is likely to be in June and will definitely be held at the University of Bolton.
</li><li> Mention of <a href="http://www.source.bbk.ac.uk/" class="external text" title="http://www.source.bbk.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a> and <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD" rel="nofollow">SWORD</a> projects.
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<a name="UK_DCMI_affiliate_work_at_UKOLN"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">UK DCMI affiliate work at UKOLN</span></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/r.russell/" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/r.russell/" rel="nofollow">Rosemary Russell</a> gave a short update on <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi-affiliate/" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi-affiliate/" rel="nofollow">UK DCMI affiliate work</a> at <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">UKOLN</a>. Rosemary advised promoting the use of DC and adoptions of new profiles (e.g. ePrints profile) were important, in addition to mentioning other affiliates.<br />
<b>Files:</b> <a href="/images/3/34/CETIS-SIG-DCMIaffil.ppt" class="internal" title="CETIS-SIG-DCMIaffil.ppt">PPT</a> &#124; <a href="/images/d/dc/04_UK_DCMI_affiliate_work_at_UKOLN.mp3" class="internal" title="04 UK DCMI affiliate work at UKOLN.mp3">MP3</a> &#124; <a href="/images/4/46/CETIS-SIG-DCMIaffil-mp3.ppt" class="internal" title="CETIS-SIG-DCMIaffil-mp3.ppt">PPT+MP3</a>
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<a name="Sarah_Currier"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Sarah Currier</span></h3>
<p>Sarah Currier - moderator of the <a href="http://dublincore.org/groups/education/" class="external text" title="http://dublincore.org/groups/education/" rel="nofollow">DCMI Education Community</a> - spoke about DC-Ed, providing a background and covering the DC-Ed application profile.<br />
<b>Files:</b> <a href="/images/8/89/2007-04-16-sarah.ppt" class="internal" title="2007-04-16-sarah.ppt">PPT</a> &#124; <a href="/images/a/ad/05_DC-Ed.mp3" class="internal" title="05 DC-Ed.mp3">MP3</a> &#124; <a href="/images/4/47/2007-04-16-sarah-mp3.ppt" class="internal" title="2007-04-16-sarah-mp3.ppt">PPT+MP3</a>
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<a name="Rob_Tice"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Rob Tice</span></h3>
<p>Rob Tice gave the final presentation of the day, talking about <a href="http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?cfid=662527&amp;cftoken=63d05f972705-4b7df789-c05d-eae1-98481165ea7bbc6b&amp;resID=20732&amp;page=1713&amp;catID=1732" class="external text" title="http://industry.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?cfid=662527&amp;cftoken=63d05f972705-4b7df789-c05d-eae1-98481165ea7bbc6b&amp;resID=20732&amp;page=1713&amp;catID=1732" rel="nofollow">Becta's Vocabulary Management Services</a>.<br />
<b>Files:</b> <i>PPT</i> &#124; <a href="/images/b/bf/06_Becta%27s_Vocabulary_Management_Services.mp3" class="internal" title="06 Becta's Vocabulary Management Services.mp3">MP3</a> &#124; <i>PPT+MP3</i>
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<a name="Evaluations"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Evaluations</span></h2>
<ul><li> <a href="/images/a/a0/20070416_SIG_Meeting_Evaluations_Summary.pdf" class="internal" title="20070416 SIG Meeting Evaluations Summary.pdf">Summary of evaluation forms</a> (PDF)
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<a name="Delegates"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Delegates</span></h2>
<ul><li> <span class="plainlinks"><a href="http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/events/registrations.php?id=27" class="external text" title="http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/events/registrations.php?id=27" rel="nofollow">Delegate list</a></span>
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<p>16th April, 2007<br />
Lascelles Williams Training Room<br />
<a href="http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/" class="external text" title="http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">Manchester Computing</a><br />
Oxford Road<br />
Manchester M13 9PL
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<ul><li> <a href="http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/04/jisc_cetis_meta.html" class="external text" title="http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/04/jisc_cetis_meta.html" rel="nofollow">Pete Johnston's report of the day's presentations</a>
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<p><br />
The following report is from the 8th March 2004 Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held at LT Scotland, Glasgow. Report by <a href="/User:Philb" title="User:Philb">Phil Barker</a>.
</p><p>A <a href="/8th_March_2004%2C_Glasgow#Attendees" title="8th March 2004, Glasgow">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report and a <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/eval_summary.htm" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/eval_summary.htm" rel="nofollow">summary of the evaluation returns</a> is also available.
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<table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#IMS.2FIEEE_CEN.2FISSS_etc._update"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">IMS/IEEE CEN/ISSS etc. update</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#IMS_Learning_Resource_Metadata"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">IMS Learning Resource Metadata</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#IEEE_and_CEN.2FISSS"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">IEEE and CEN/ISSS</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#IMS_VDEX_and_RLI_Update"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">IMS VDEX and RLI Update</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Sharing_Models_for_ePrints_and_LOs"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Sharing Models for ePrints and LOs</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#News_and_Announcements"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">News and Announcements</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#UK_LOM_Core"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">UK LOM Core</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#IMS_QTI_Metadata"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">IMS QTI Metadata</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#JISC_IEMSR"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">JISC IEMSR</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Stor_Curam"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Stor Curam</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Learning_Outcome_Metadata"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Learning Outcome Metadata</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#JISC_Digital_Rights_Management_Project"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">JISC Digital Rights Management Project</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<p>Phil Barker gave a brief introduction to the day and to the aims and activities of CETIS.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/philb.intro.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/philb.intro.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [62KB].
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<a name="IMS.2FIEEE_CEN.2FISSS_etc._update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">IMS/IEEE CEN/ISSS etc. update</span></h2>
<a name="IMS_Learning_Resource_Metadata"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">IMS Learning Resource Metadata</span></h3>
<p>Lorna Campbell gave an update on ongoing metadata work at IMS to update IMS Learning Resource Metadata which will lead to version IMS Metadata 1.3 being alligned with the IEEE LOM. The public draft of IMS Metadata 1.2.2 (which was never ratified) will be withdrawn. Implementations based on IMS Metadata 1.2.1 will still be valid, and an XSL transform will be released to convert metadata instances from IMS Metadata version 1.2.1 to version 1.3. The IMS Technical Board have approved release of the public draft of Metadata version 1.3, although some comments need to be addressed before this release will take place. Future work for the IMS Metadata Special Interest Group may include building a Metadata FAQ and work with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/lorna.imsupdate.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/lorna.imsupdate.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lorna's slides</a> [49KB].
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<a name="IEEE_and_CEN.2FISSS"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">IEEE and CEN/ISSS</span></h3>
<p>Wilbert Kraan then updated us on recent activity at IEEE and CEN/ISSS.
</p><p>The XML binding for the IEEE LOM is still in ballot resolution, that is comments which made about the final draft are being addressed.
</p><p>Another IEEE working group (IEEE LTSC WG4) is looking at requirements for a digital rights expression language for educational and training resources, and comparing these with the functionality offered by general digital rights expression languages such as ODRL and MPEG-21 DREL. (A CETIS article on the IEEE call for requirements is available.
</p><p>The bulk of Wilbert's presentation was taken up with discussion about a proposal for a CEN/ISSS workshop agreement on Simple Query Interface (SQI). SQI aims to provide a lightweight specification for passing queries between systems either in synchronous or asynchronous mode and on either a client-server or peer-to-peer architecture, and without specifying a transport mechanism or query language (again, there is a CETIS article giving more information). Discussion centred on the overlap between SQI and Z39.50 and SRW/U, with the suggestion that SQI should have built on these.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/wilbert.SQI_LOMbinding.pdf" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/wilbert.SQI_LOMbinding.pdf" rel="nofollow">Wilbert's PDF slides</a> [125KB].
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<a name="IMS_VDEX_and_RLI_Update"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">IMS VDEX and RLI Update</span></h3>
<p>Phil Barker gave an progress update on two IMS specifications relevant to the group: Vocabulary Definition and Exchange, version 1.0 of which has just been released; and Resource List Interoperability, the public draft of which is being written. The report details the information model for VDEX (highlighting changes from the public draft) and gives an outline of the possible XML binding for RLI.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/philb.imsstatus.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/philb.imsstatus.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [157KB].
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<a name="Sharing_Models_for_ePrints_and_LOs"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Sharing Models for ePrints and LOs</span></h2>
<p>Jane Barton and Fabrio Simeoni of the Centre for Digital Library Research gave a talk about interoperability between institutional eprint archives. Their experience was drawn from the HaIRST project, which was funded under the JISC FAIR (Facilitating Access to Institutional Resources) programme. HaIRST is a collaborative project between 3 Universities and 10 colleges around Scotland which has been investigating the means of setting up linked repositories. The presentation gave an overview of the aims fo the FAIR programme and HaIRST, and explained how these relate to similar issues encountered when encoraging the use and interoperability of learning object repositories. Models for creating and sharing metadata were discussed, in particular the collaborative creation of metadata and cross-searching versus harvesting strategies. The presenters spoke in favour of having distributed repositories which shared metadata via OAI-PMH and devolving responsibility to an institutional level rather than having having a centralised repository.
</p><p>For more details, see the <a href="http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/documents/CETIS.ppt" class="external text" title="http://hairst.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/documents/CETIS.ppt" rel="nofollow">slides</a> on the HaIRST website.
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<a name="News_and_Announcements"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">News and Announcements</span></h2>
<a name="UK_LOM_Core"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">UK LOM Core</span></h3>
<p>Lorna Campbell gave an update on the UK LOM Core, the second draft of which is almost complete. The mandated element set has not been changed, though there are discussions about whether there should be some minor changes to which parts of the vCard are mandatory. There have been changes to the advice on identifiers to bring the UK LOM Core in to line with discussions hosted by CETIS last year, there are also changes to the names of the vocabularies used for Educational Context and Educational Level. In discussion after the presentation there was a suggestion that advice on a vocabulary for learning resource types needs to be made more specific and that implementers should be discouraged from creating new learning resource type vocabularies.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/lorna.uklomcore.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/lorna.uklomcore.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lorna's slides</a> [51KB].
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<a name="IMS_QTI_Metadata"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">IMS QTI Metadata</span></h3>
<p>Rowin Cross of the CETIS Assessment SIG gave an overview of the metadata issues facing the IMS group who are working on version 2 of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification. Rather than having its own metadata vocabulary, as was the case in version 1 of the spec, the aim is for QTI 2.0 to use the LOM, with some extensions (learning resource type was an issue again) and some LOM elements being deprecated. Anyone interested in this work should contact Rowin via the Assessment SIG.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/rowin.qtimd.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/rowin.qtimd.ppt" rel="nofollow">Rowin's slides</a> [123KB].
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<a name="JISC_IEMSR"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">JISC IEMSR</span></h3>
<p>Pete Johston announced a new project, the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry, which UKOLN are heading (with ILRT at Bristol). This project aims to build on previous work on metadata registries (see for example the MEG Registry) to explore the needs for and develop a shared registry of metadata application profiles used by services in the JISC Information Environment. More details can be found on UKOLN's IEMSR page.
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<a name="Stor_Curam"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Stor Curam</span></h2>
<p>Sarah Currier presented an introduction to a new project, Stor Curam (a storehouse of learning resources for social care), which is funded by the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education. Sarah, who used to work on the CETIS Educational Content SIG, is the project librarian for this project, which will build, populate and encourage the use of a web web-based learning object repository for Social Work. The repository will use intraLibrary and will be searchable and browsable through a social work education vocabulary that will be developed as part of the project. Sarah gave an overview of the approach the project plans to take in populating the repository with learning objects and encouraging thier use, and in developing the taxonomy for browsing.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/sarah.stor-curam.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/sarah.stor-curam.ppt" rel="nofollow">Sarah's slides</a> [1.4MB].
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<a name="Learning_Outcome_Metadata"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Learning Outcome Metadata</span></h2>
<p>Rachel Ellaway gave a presentation based on work describing learning outcomes in Scottish Medical programmes. Rachel described how Scottish medical schools have a agreed common learning outcomes (see scottishdoctor.org), although they do not share a common curriculum. Rachel spoke about describing these outcomes, and about mapping them to other descripitons of learning outcomes (e.g. the General Medical Council's Tomorrow's Doctor), and the issues of semantic drift which could arise if mappings between several such vocabularies were followed.
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<a name="JISC_Digital_Rights_Management_Project"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">JISC Digital Rights Management Project</span></h2>
<p>Charles Duncan of Intrallect Ltd introduced a new JISC funded study on digital right management issues which arise from the creation, storage and reuse of learning objects. He examined in some detail what is meant by reuse, which can extend to disaggregation and inclusion of some parts of a learnign object in other learning objects. The study will be wide ranging and look (among other things) technical, legal and cultural aspects of rights management. The study will report in July, anyone interested is referred to the jisc-drm Jiscmail list and the Intrallect DRM study website.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/charles.drm.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/glasgow2004_presentations/charles.drm.ppt" rel="nofollow">Charles' slides</a> [238KB].
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following people registered for the meeting.
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<td>Ed Barker</td><td>CETIS/ICBL</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS Metadata</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Jane Barton</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Gayle Calverley</td><td>Distributed Learning</td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Lorna Campbell</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Clive Church</td><td>CETIS FE Focus</td><td>Newark College
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<td>Rowin Cross</td><td>CETIS Assessment</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Stewart Cromar</td><td>CMVM</td><td>University of Edinburgh
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Sue Doran</td><td> </td><td>Thomas Rotherham College
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<td>Charles Duncan</td><td> </td><td>Intrallect Ltd.
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<td>Gordon Dunsire</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Steve Fox</td><td>CMVM</td><td>University of Edinburgh
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<td>Rachel Heery</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
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<td>Steve Jeyes</td><td>CETIS FE Focus</td><td>Newark College
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<td>Pete Johnston</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
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<td>Linda Kerr</td><td>EEVL</td><td>Heriot Watt University
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<td>Wilbert Kraan</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Wales, Bangor
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<td>Brett Lucas</td><td>LTSN English</td><td>Royal Holloway, University of London
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<td>John McCann</td><td> </td><td>Office of the e-Envoy
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<td>Sarah McConnell</td><td>JORUM+, EDINA</td><td>Edinburgh University
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<td>Martin Morrey</td><td> </td><td>Intrallect
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<td>Steve Richardson</td><td> </td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Fabio Simeoni</td><td>HaIRST</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Lara Whitelaw</td><td> </td><td>The Open University
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations and to those at LT Scotland who helped with the organisation.
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</p><p>Report by <a href="/User:Neil" title="User:Neil">Neil Fegen</a>, based in part on notes by Julie Allinson. We tried to record all the presentations, but the quality of the recordings was variable, with some completely inaudable. The others are provided as MP3 files, which we hope you find a useful supplement to the PowerPoint slides (even though they might be hard to follow at times).
</p><p>A <a href="/Metadata_and_Digital_Repositories/1st_March_2006%2C_York#Attendees" title="Metadata and Digital Repositories/1st March 2006, York">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report and a <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/Evaluations_summary.pdf" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/Evaluations_summary.pdf" rel="nofollow">summary of the evaluation forms</a> is also available.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction_to_Reference_Models"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction to Reference Models</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#A_Reference_Model_for_the_ASK_Project"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">A Reference Model for the ASK Project</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Assessment_item_banks_as_repositories"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Assessment item banks as repositories</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#An_overview_of_OAIS"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">An overview of OAIS</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Discussion"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Discussion</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#OAIS_as_a_communication_tool.3F"><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">OAIS as a communication tool?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#OAIS_as_a_reflection_of_practice.3F"><span class="tocnumber">6.2</span> <span class="toctext">OAIS as a reflection of practice?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#OAIS:_reference_model_of_framework.3F"><span class="tocnumber">6.3</span> <span class="toctext">OAIS: reference model of framework?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Repository:_towards_a_definition"><span class="tocnumber">6.4</span> <span class="toctext">Repository: towards a definition</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Adapting_OAIS_to_support_community_needs.3F"><span class="tocnumber">6.5</span> <span class="toctext">Adapting OAIS to support community needs?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#InterPARES_modelling..."><span class="tocnumber">6.6</span> <span class="toctext">InterPARES modelling...</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Next_steps_and_possible_further_work"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Next steps and possible further work</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<p>Phil Barker gave a brief introduction to the day and to the aims and activities of <i>CETIS</i>.
</p><p>For more details, download Phil's presentation:
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<a name="Introduction_to_Reference_Models"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Introduction to Reference Models</span></h2>
<p>Julie Allinson (of UKOLN) presented an Introduction to Reference Models, describing how the Digital Repositories Programme has some twenty-five projects - organised into clusters - and covers a cross-domain and range of issues. Julie also gave a summary of the issues raised and progress made at the Repository strand of the November JISC/CETIS conference, including the usefulness of reference models in clarifying 'known and unknown unknowns'.
</p><p>For more details, download Julie's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/julieallinson.repositoriesrefmodels.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/julieallinson.repositoriesrefmodels.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="A_Reference_Model_for_the_ASK_Project"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">A Reference Model for the ASK Project</span></h2>
<p>Howard Noble presented work on the Accessing and Storing Knowledge (ASK) Project, which is funded under the JISC Digital Repositories Programme, and aims to build a repository or repository services. Key services from the e-Learning Framework referenced include: Authentication, Authorisation and Content Management. Howard concluded that the process of creating a reference model requires: the improvement of communication channels and facilitation of the process around development of interoperability specifications; and a vision for the interaction between a VLE and repository services.
</p><p>For more details, download Howard's presentation
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/howardnoble.askproject.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/howardnoble.askproject.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="Assessment_item_banks_as_repositories"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Assessment item banks as repositories</span></h2>
<p>Mhairi McAlpine from SQA presented on assessment item banks, describing item banking and the associated elements. An item consists of a question plus associated information, including: metadata, additional QTI metadata, resources (e.g. images, base QTI files, culturally appropriate stylesheets), feedback, etc. Two versions of an item bank infrastructure model were shown. Mhairi also talked about the importance of standards compliance and robust testing, and the implications for digital repositories, which included security and dynamic collaboration issues.
</p><p>For more details, download Mhairi's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/mhairimcalpine.itembanking.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/mhairimcalpine.itembanking.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/mhairimcalpine.itembanks.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/mhairimcalpine.itembanks.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="An_overview_of_OAIS"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">An overview of OAIS</span></h2>
<p>Michael Day from UKOLN talked about the OAIS reference model, with reference to: the background; definitions, high level concepts, and mandatory responsibilities; functional model; and information model. Michael mentioned other perspectives, such as preservation and archive interoperability. The implementation of OAIS was shown, along with conclusions from UKDA and TNA assessment.
</p><p>For more details, download Michael's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/michaelday.oaisintroduction.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/michaelday.oaisintroduction.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/michaelday.oaisintroduction.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/HEAMar2006/michaelday.oaisintroduction.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="Discussion"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Discussion</span></h2>
<p>Is OAIS suitable as a reference model for repositories?
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<a name="OAIS_as_a_communication_tool.3F"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">OAIS as a communication tool?</span></h3>
<p>Michael Day noted that the OAIS vocabulary is not uncontested so may not be the most neutral set of terminology. Expecting different communities to agree on a single vocabulary is not perhaps the best option. Mapping the OAIS terminology to that used in different areas would be a useful exercise and developing some crosswalk-type documentation.
</p>
<a name="OAIS_as_a_reflection_of_practice.3F"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">OAIS as a reflection of practice?</span></h3>
<p>There was some discussion of the preservation elements of OAIS and whether these would be necessary for repositories. Although true that not all repositories have a responsibility for preservation, it is something that repositories should be aware of. OAIS provides a model for communicating policy and practice relating to preservation and offers the flexibility for defining "long-term preservation". Many repositories are already fulfilling the mandatory responsibilities but that OAIS helps communicate these activities.
</p>
<a name="OAIS:_reference_model_of_framework.3F"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">OAIS: reference model of framework?</span></h3>
<p>Howard Noble pointed to Figure 6 in the paper: 'Service-Oriented Frameworks: Modelling the infrastructure for the next generation of e-Learning Systems', and asked whether OAIS would be classed as a Framework. There was some disagreement with this diagram and it was generally agreed that OAIS is a high-level reference model, rather than a framework, with lower level reference models falling within or beneath it. This lower level of detail is where connection with the services in the e-Framework would be identified. This relationship with the e-Framework was seen as an important one, but there was some feeling that the e-Framework is not dynamic enough at present. Current developments - such as the appointment of an e-Framework editor - are working towards a more dynamic e-Framework. It was noted that the e-Framework itself is not mandating any compliance and that 'bricks' might be coupled with non e-Framework services ('stones'). Other Frameworks also exist, e.g. BECTA, eGIF.
</p>
<a name="Repository:_towards_a_definition"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Repository: towards a definition</span></h3>
<p>There was consensus on the first three points of the repository definition:
</p>
<ul><li> Content is deposited in a repository, whether by the content creator, owner or third party
</li><li> The repository architecture manages content as well as metadata
</li><li> The repository offers a minimum set of basic services e.g. put, get, search, access control.
</li></ul>
<p>The fourth point was hotly debated:
</p>
<ul><li> The repository must be sustainable and trusted, well-supported and well-managed.
</li></ul>
<p>It was felt that although important, this point is a value judgement rather than part of a core definition. This notion of trust, sustainability and management is central to OAIS, although OAIS does not mandate any real compliance. It is the role of policy to specify the extent to which a repository fulfils this point. If repository developers are being guided by a reference model, then are they already considering issues of trust and sustainability? If this point remains as part of the definition, does this exclude many of the growing body of popular repositories such as community wikis, or should these not be accepted as true repositories because they do not fulfil this aspect of the definition?
</p><p>The reference model, by implication, defines what a repository is, but does not enforce a strict definition or any mandatory elements. It is a map of the space, of its services and data, etc. rather than a compliance checklist. It was agreed that it is not the intention of a reference model to exclude repositories. The definition is generic for this reason and changes in usage and landscape might necessarily alter this idea of sustainability and trust.
</p>
<a name="Adapting_OAIS_to_support_community_needs.3F"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Adapting OAIS to support community needs?</span></h3>
<p>PREMIS started with a framework explicitly based around the OAIS information model, but has since redefined its metadata model. OAIS concepts are implicit, but PREMIS created own event-aware model.
</p>
<a name="InterPARES_modelling..."></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">InterPARES modelling...</span></h3>
<p>InterPARES modelling of specific ingest functions for records management - This returns to the idea that OAIS model is communication tool -- it asks questions about a repository's functions, information and processes. Production of a working repository is outside OAIS and investigating an OAIS-lite approach for a different domain is potentially an interesting application of the model.
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<a name="Next_steps_and_possible_further_work"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Next steps and possible further work</span></h2>
<ul><li> Give feedback on the results of the discussion to the Digital Repositories Programme support team.
</li><li> OAIS
<ul><li> More detailed analysis and evaluation of OAIS, including its terminology, functions, information model and mandatory responsibilities
</li><li> Involve OAIS experts and representatives from the various stakeholder communities (e-learning, repositories, etc) in this analysis work
</li><li> Further explore issues raised through future SIG meetings?
</li><li> Mapping of OAIS elements to the repositories landscape, as identified through the developing typology/ecology
</li><li> Documenting and discussing this via collaborative mechanisms (wiki, jiscmail, etc).
</li></ul>
</li><li> Reference Models
<ul><li> Evaluate any other candidate reference models, e.g. CORDRA
</li><li> CETIS reference models projects and repositories meeting for discussion of different implementations and approaches, identifying exemplars and best practices and opportunities for sharing lower-level detail of actual service implementations.
</li></ul>
</li><li> e-Framework
<ul><li> Identifying the relevant e-Framework 'bricks' to fulfil functions identified in the OAIS reference model
</li><li> Contributing to the e-Framework, keeping the e-Framework dynamic and possibly extracting some definitions of concepts from the OAIS
</li><li> Identifying gaps in the e-Framework and existing/potential problem areas
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following registered for the meeting.
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<table cellspacing="2" style="border:1px silver solid; padding:3px; margin:.1em" summary="Table of meeting attendees, showing name, role and institution">
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<td>Julie Allinson</td><td>Digital Repositories Support Officer</td><td>UKOLN
</td></tr>
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<td>Dave Baines</td><td>UKCDR Database Officer</td><td>University of Manchester
</td></tr>
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<td>Kenny Baird</td><td>Metadata and Technical Support</td><td>JORUM
</td></tr>
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Coordinator</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
</td></tr>
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<td>Wayne Britcliffe</td><td>Digital Learning Resources Manager</td><td>University of York
</td></tr>
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<td>Gayle Calverley</td><td>Distributed Learning Resources Technology Adviser</td><td>University of Manchester
</td></tr>
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<td>Jonathan Carr</td><td>J2EE Developer</td><td>University of York
</td></tr>
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<td>Stephen Charles</td><td>MIDESS Project Manager</td><td>University of Leeds
</td></tr>
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<td>Clive Church</td><td>Co-ordinator</td><td>CETIS Lifelong Learning Group
</td></tr>
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<td>Mike Clarke</td><td>Unspecified</td><td>Higher Education Academy
</td></tr>
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>Digital Repositories Programme Support Officer</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
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<td>Michael Day</td><td>Research Officer</td><td>UKOLN
</td></tr>
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<td>Neil Fegen</td><td>Research Associate</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
</td></tr>
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<td>Chris Hayman</td><td>Unspecified</td><td>Sun Microsystems UK
</td></tr>
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<td>Sheila MacNeill</td><td>CETIS Educational Content SIG Coordinator</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
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<td>Mhairi McAlpine</td><td>Unspecified</td><td>SQA
</td></tr>
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<td>Malcolm Moffat</td><td>Research Associate</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
</td></tr>
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<td>Martin Morrey</td><td>Product Director</td><td>Intrallect
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<td>Howard Noble</td><td>Educational Interoperability Specialist</td><td>University of Oxford
</td></tr>
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<td>Jackie Proven</td><td>Digital Rights Research and Development Assistant</td><td>UHI Millennium Institute
</td></tr>
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<td>Lisa Rogers</td><td>Research Associate</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
</td></tr>
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<td>Ben Ryan</td><td>Technical Director</td><td>Kainao Limited
</td></tr>
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<td>Jenni Squire</td><td>UKCDR Project Officer</td><td>University of Manchester
</td></tr>
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<td>Lara Whitelaw</td><td>Metadata Development Manager</td><td>The Open University
</td></tr></table>
<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations and to those at the HE Academy who helped with the organisation.
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</p><p>The following report is from the 20th September 2005 joint Pedagogy and Metadata &amp; Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held at the Open University, Milton Keynes. Report by <a href="/User:Philb" title="User:Philb">Phil Barker</a>. Presentations are available in PowerPoint format, which we hope you find useful.
</p><p>A <a href="/20th_September_2005%2C_Milton_Keynes#Attendees" title="20th September 2005, Milton Keynes">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Sharing_Learning_Designs:_the_LAMS_Community"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Sharing Learning Designs: the LAMS Community</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Curriculum_Document_Modelling_and_Storage"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Curriculum Document Modelling and Storage</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Standards_Update"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Standards Update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Making_Metadata_Work_-_a_Story_in_Three_Parts"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Making Metadata Work - a Story in Three Parts</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Pedagogic_Vocabularies"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Pedagogic Vocabularies</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="Sharing_Learning_Designs:_the_LAMS_Community"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Sharing Learning Designs: the LAMS Community</span></h2>
<p>James Dalziel joined the meeting by telephone from Australia and gave a presentation on <a href="http://www.lamsinternational.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.lamsinternational.com/" rel="nofollow">LAMS</a> and the LAMS community. LAMS is a 'learning design inspired' tool that allows the teacher to create a flow of collaborative tasks that can be stored, reused, and modified. Despite the promised advantages of reuse, there is not much evidence of widespread sharing of digital learning resources. James proposed that it was still worth pursuing the dream of reuse, but that a different approach was necessary, the LAMS community is his approach. In order to promote sharing, the LAMS community focuses on activities, not content, a community rather than a repository, simplifying resource description, rating and licensing, and a free platform
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/jamesdalziel.lamscommunity.ppt/" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/jamesdalziel.lamscommunity.ppt/" rel="nofollow">James' PowerPoint slides</a> [739 KB] and the <a href="http://lamscommunity.org/" class="external text" title="http://lamscommunity.org/" rel="nofollow">LAMS Community website</a>.
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<a name="Curriculum_Document_Modelling_and_Storage"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Curriculum Document Modelling and Storage</span></h2>
<p>Ben Ryan, of <a href="http://www.kainao.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.kainao.com/" rel="nofollow">Kainao Limited</a> presented work undertaken as part of a JISC regional pilot lead
at the University of Hull with Kainao and eight FE colleges as partners. The aim is to model and manage curriculum documents in a way that facilitates extraction and processing of the information they contain in order to support requirements such as Quality Assurance. A UML information model and XML schema for the curriculum document and software for processing will be piloted. The information model contains features of a calendar, a wide range of information represented as free text (to allow flexibility), and links to resource required by the course. The XML binding reuses elements from Dublin Core and XHTML. The software will be able to flag whether aims and objectives are present (but won't be able to verify whether they are sensible) and will also be able highlight whether the required resources (teachers, lab equipment etc.) are available.
</p><p>In discussion after the presentation, HE and FE were contrasted with respect to the tendency for FE to work to externally imposed curricula whereas HE Institutions tend to create their own. Thus, there is a greater drive towards standardization of curriculum document templates in FE than in HE.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/benryan.curriculummodelling.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/benryan.curriculummodelling.ppt" rel="nofollow">Ben's slides</a> [335 KB].
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<a name="Standards_Update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Standards Update</span></h2>
<p>Lorna Campbell of CETIS gave an update on progress with: IMS Learning Resource Metadata 1.3; BSI standardisation of the UK LOM Core; DCMI Education working group and efforts to produce a mapping between the LOM and DC abstract models.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/lornacampbell.standardsupdate.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/lornacampbell.standardsupdate.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lorna's slides</a> [76 KB].
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<a name="Making_Metadata_Work_-_a_Story_in_Three_Parts"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Making Metadata Work - a Story in Three Parts</span></h2>
<p>David Davies' presentation drew some generic lessons from practical implementations of learning object
repositories in the medical education domain. His first example was the Electronic Curriculum, a portal for medical students created in the late 1990s which used MESH keywords to provide access to knowledge relevant to their courses. He felt the weakness of this approach was that MESH represents knowledge in way that does not relate to the curriculum that students study. As a result, the second project David highlighted - the IVIMEDS learning object repository for medical resources - used a curriculum map as a contextualising framework. The standards used in <a href="http://www.ivimeds.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.ivimeds.org/" rel="nofollow">IVIMEDS</a> include: VDEX and zThes for the curriculum map and controlled vocabularies used in browsing; IMS Content Packaging and SCORM for the objects, with browser locale information to inform choices between alternative words/phrases encoded in XML in the source to allow for internationalization. For future possibilities, David looked to examples such as Flickr and Amazon and showed some of the strengths and weaknesses of free keyword tagging and folksonomies; user ratings and recommendations and enhancing browsing with controlled vocabularies.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/daviddavies.makingmetadatawork.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/daviddavies.makingmetadatawork.ppt" rel="nofollow">David's slides</a> [9.5 MB] (large file).
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<a name="Pedagogic_Vocabularies"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Pedagogic Vocabularies</span></h2>
<p>Sarah Currier gave an overview of a short project she is working on looking into existing vocabularies for describing pedagogy. This project will compile two reports, one describing vocabularies the second describing the standards and technologies for managing them. It will also issue recommendations to JISC on future work in this area.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/sarahcurrier.pedvocabs.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/OUSept2005/sarahcurrier.pedvocabs.ppt" rel="nofollow">Sarah's slides</a> [94 KB].
</p><p>Sarah used most the time available to lead a discussion as part of the information gathering for the project. The issues raised included:
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<ul><li> Whether the project would look at the possible prescriptive use of vocabularies, especially in FE. This may feature in the report
</li><li> How pedagogic vocabularies might be used (users say they want them but aren't sure what for)
</li><li> No single vocabulary will work in all situations, need different vocabularies for different needs
</li><li> Strict taxonomies may not be the best solution: less structured solutions might be useful, as might semantic web solutions
</li><li> A pedagogic vocabulary might not be a viable solution, teachers often don't express what they do in a shareable way. The vocabulary might act as tramlines. It would be better to provide a framework that supported flexible description...
</li><li>...however, the developer of tools which support teaching and learning require something more like a vocabulary.
</li></ul>
<p>Recommendations for further discussion about all these issues may be made by the project; however, finding solutions that embrace them is beyond the projects means.
</p>
<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following people registered for the meeting.
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<td>Kenny Baird</td><td>Metadata and Technical Support</td><td>JORUM
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>Metadata and Digital Repository Coordinator</td><td>CETIS
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<td>Andrew Brasher</td><td>Learning and teaching Technologies Officer</td><td>The Open University
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<td>Lorna Campbell</td><td>Assistant Director</td><td>CETIS
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<td>John Casey</td><td>Learning materials manager</td><td>
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<td>Clive Church</td><td>Co-ordinator</td><td>CETIS Lifelong Learning Group
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<td>John Cook</td><td>Operations Manager</td><td>Reusable Learning Objects CETL London Metropolitan University
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<td>Martyn Cooper</td><td>Head: Accessible Educational Media</td><td>Open University
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<td>Lisa Corley</td><td>Pedagogy Forum Coordinator</td><td>CETIS
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>Project Manager and Senior Research Fellow</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>David Davies</td><td>Senior Lecturer</td><td>The University of Birmingham Medical School
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<td>Jacquie Kelly</td><td>MLE/VLE Manager</td><td>JISC infoNet
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<td>Theresa Kinnison</td><td>14-19 Service and Communities Manager</td><td>Becta
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<td>Susan Kozicki</td><td>Project officer</td><td>niace
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<td>Paul Lefrere</td><td>Senior Lecturer</td><td>Open University
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<td>Sheila MacNeill</td><td>CETIS EC SIG Coordinator</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Sue Manuel</td><td>Research Assistant</td><td>Loughborough University
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<td>Patrick McAndrew</td><td>Senior Lecturer (IET)</td><td>The Open University
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<td>Sue Moron-Garcia</td><td>Research Officer</td><td>University College Worcester
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<td>Chris Pegler</td><td>Lecturer</td><td>The Open University
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<td>Mark Power</td><td>Projects Support Officer</td><td>University of Bolton
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<td>Richard Procter</td><td>Reseacher</td><td>CARET University of Cambridge
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<td>Anne Ramsden</td><td>Electronic Services Development Manager</td><td>The Open University
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<td>Phil Rees</td><td>Learning Technologist</td><td>University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division
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<td>Helen Richardson</td><td>joint LIPSIG Co-ordinator</td><td>CRA/University of Manchester
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<td>Ben Ryan</td><td>Lead Technical Development</td><td>Kainao Limited
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<td>Robin Skelcey</td><td>Technical Director</td><td>Xtensis ltd
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<td>Amber Thomas</td><td>Project Leader</td><td>University College Worcester
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<td>Rob Tice</td><td>Director</td><td>Knowledge Integration Ltd
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<td>Lara Whitelaw</td><td>Metadata Development Manager</td><td>The Open University
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<td>Shirley Yearwood-Jackman</td><td>Learning and Teaching Librarian (Research Support)</td><td>The Open University
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially those who gave presentations and those who helped with the organisation.
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The following report is from the 30 June 2004 Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held at the University of Liverpool. Report by <a href="/User:Philb" title="User:Philb">Phil Barker</a>. Presentations are available in PowerPoint format, which we hope you find useful.
</p><p>A <a href="/30th_June_2004%2C_Liverpool#Attendees" title="30th June 2004, Liverpool">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report and a summary of the evaluation forms is also available.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Specification_update"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Specification update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Metadata_Workflows_in_Learning_Object_Repositories"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Metadata Workflows in Learning Object Repositories</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Metadata_Collection_the_HLSI_Way"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Metadata Collection the HLSI Way</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#JISC_Information_Environment_Metadata_Schema_Registry"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Harvesting_LOM_Records_Over_OAI"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Harvesting LOM Records Over OAI</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Accessibility_Properties_for_Learning_Resources"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Accessibility Properties for Learning Resources</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="Introduction"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Introduction</span></h2>
<p>Phil Barker gave a brief introduction to the day and to the aims and activities of CETIS.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/philb.intro.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/philb.intro.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [62KB].
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<a name="Specification_update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Specification update</span></h2>
<p>Phil also gave a brief update on concerning some spec developments, which touched on:
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<ul><li> the release as a public draft of IMS Learning Resource Meta-data version 1.3
</li><li> the circulation of the second draft of the UK LOM Core
</li><li> work on creating a metadata FAQ
</li><li> the release as a public draft of IMS Resource List Interoperability
</li><li> the release as a public draft of IMS AccessForAll Meta-data.
</li></ul>
<p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/philb.update.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/philb.update.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [146KB].
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<a name="Metadata_Workflows_in_Learning_Object_Repositories"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Metadata Workflows in Learning Object Repositories</span></h2>
<p>Jane Barton, of the Centre for Digital Library Research at Strathclyde University gave an overview of a new JISC-funded project at CDLR that will investigate the practicality and sustainability of different approaches to the creation of metadata for institutional learning object repositories and ePrint archives. The project will attempt to unpack what is meant by "metadata quality" and will investigate how this is supported by the UK LOM Core and Dublin Core, covering not just the suitability of metadata for discovery and retrieval but also for the management and preservation of resources. The results will support JISC activities such as the X4L and FAIR programmes and the JORUM. The timescale for all of this work is tight, with the final report being due in September, so consultations, reviews and case studies will take place over the summer.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://mwi.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Documents/BartonCETIS300604.ppt" class="external text" title="http://mwi.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Documents/BartonCETIS300604.ppt" rel="nofollow">Jane's slides</a> [64KB].
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<a name="Metadata_Collection_the_HLSI_Way"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Metadata Collection the HLSI Way</span></h2>
<p>Kieran O'Farrell of the High Level Skills for Industry project gave a description of how that project had addressed problems with the quality of the metadata being entered into their repository by content producers. A review of the metadata in the repository by metadata specialists (librarians) had identified problems such as metadata descriptions that related to the format of the object rather than its content (e.g. "a flash object"), over zealous use of cut-and-paste, and template defaults that were never changed. Kieran reported how a working group of librarians, a subject tutor and a software developer had suggested changes to the metadata creation tools, work practices and systems in order to improve the quality of the metadata. This included:
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<ul><li> Simpler entry forms and wizards for resource authors to add basic metadata
</li><li> Using library-trained metadata specialists to complete the metadata authoring.
</li><li> Using language appropriate for UK Further Education
</li><li> Sparing use of templates
</li><li> Creating a good practice guide.
</li></ul>
<p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/hlsi-way.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/hlsi-way.ppt" rel="nofollow">Kieran's slides</a> [250KB].
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<a name="JISC_Information_Environment_Metadata_Schema_Registry"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry</span></h2>
<p>Pete Johnston of UKOLN presented an overview of a new Jisc funded project to create a Metadata Schema Registry for the JISC IE. The project will provide a pilot metadata schema registry as a shared service in the JISC IE that will provide machine (and human) readable information about metadata vocabularies used by other services in the IE. It is hoped that the disclosure of this information will aid interoperability by enabling the discovery and reuse of metadata terms and vocabularies in common use and providing pointers to supporting materials such as use guidelines, bindings, transformations etc. The Schema registry would thus store information on metadata application profiles being used and would support the development of interoperable application profiles. Pete then described some of his work on modeling Dublin Core and LOM application profiles, contrasting the selection of single terms from the "flat" Dublin Core to the "pruning" of branches from the LOM hierarchy, the latter of which had not been well represented in previous metadata schema registry work.
</p><p>For more details, see Pete's slides on the UKOLN website in <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/iemsr/dissem/pres/cetisliv/cetisliv.ppt" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/iemsr/dissem/pres/cetisliv/cetisliv.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a> and <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/iemsr/dissem/pres/cetisliv/" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/iemsr/dissem/pres/cetisliv/" rel="nofollow">HTML</a> formats.
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<a name="Harvesting_LOM_Records_Over_OAI"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Harvesting LOM Records Over OAI</span></h2>
<p>First, here's something which wasn't presented at the meeting due to lack of time. I had prepared some background to the RDN-LTSN interoperability project, covering who the RDN and LTSN are, what they do and where they overlap in what they do, and a general overview of the OAI-PMH based approach taken to making sure that they approach the overlap in their remits without duplicating effort.
</p><p>For more details, see the <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/philb.rdnltsn.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/philb.rdnltsn.ppt" rel="nofollow">summary slides</a> [107KB].
</p><p>Paul Hollands, of LTSN-01 gave a presentation based on his work in developing software and guidelines to support the RDN-LTSN partnership projects. Paul described the approach which has been taken: creating a profile of the LOM for this work (the RLLOMAP, which though it was developed independently from the UK LOM Core has been made compatible with it); adapting OAI-PMH software which supports to Dublin Core so that it also support the RLLOMAP; and some of the problems encountered on the way (with his solutions). I don't think Paul will mind being described as a "constructive skeptic" when it comes to the LOM and the UK LOM Core and his work has been useful in highlighting issues such as the difficulty of applying these specifications to the description of a broad range of resources, the lack of OAI tools for harvesting LOM records, and confusion caused by difficulty in forming a collective understanding of the LOM and how to use it.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/static/slides/metadata_sig1.htmlPaul's" class="external text" title="http://www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/static/slides/metadata_sig1.htmlPaul's" rel="nofollow">presentation</a> on the LTSN-01 website.
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<a name="Accessibility_Properties_for_Learning_Resources"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Accessibility Properties for Learning Resources</span></h2>
<p>Finally, Andy Heath gave an account of work aiming to provide resource metadata that would work in synergy with the information about a user's resource preferences given in formats such as IMS ACCLIP (the Accessibility Learner Information Package specification). The IMS AccessForAll Meta-data Specification is one example of such resource metadata, and Andy focused on his work with CEN/ISSS APLR which is looking at how to create an application profile of the LOM for this type of metadata. Andy showed how there were two approaches possible: one based on re-using what was already in the LOM and thereby benefiting from the current adoption of these elements; and the other highlighting the accessibility metadata as separate, highly constrained and therefor more interoperable, category extending the LOM. Andy showed how the debate between proponents of the two approaches had progressed, but at this time was not settled.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/akhLiverpool30-6-04.ppt|Andy's" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/liverpool2004_presentations/akhLiverpool30-6-04.ppt|Andy's" rel="nofollow">slides</a> [63KB]. Those interested in the discussion can <a href="http://axelrod.cms.shu.ac.uk/" class="external text" title="http://axelrod.cms.shu.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow">join the APLR discussion list</a> and <a href="http://axelrod.cms.shu.ac.uk/mailman/private/aplr/" class="external text" title="http://axelrod.cms.shu.ac.uk/mailman/private/aplr/" rel="nofollow">view the archive</a>.
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS Metadata</td><td>Heriot Watt University
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<td>Jane Barton</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>Stòr Cùram Project</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Pete Johnston</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
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<td>Ivanna Fernandez</td><td>Stòr Cùram Project</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Andy Heath</td><td> </td><td>Sheffield Hallam University
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<td>Tom Heath</td><td>Higher Education Academy, UK Centre for Materials Education</td><td>University of Liverpool
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<td>Paul Hollands</td><td>LTSN-01</td><td>University of Newcastle
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<td>Kieran O'Farrell</td><td>HLSI</td><td>University of Huddersfield
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<td>John Robertson</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Chris Taylor</td><td>Higher Education Academy, UK Centre for Materials Education</td><td>University of Liverpool
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<td>Rob Tice</td><td> </td><td>Knowledge Integration Ltd
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<td>Lara Whitelaw</td><td> </td><td>The Open University
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations and to those at the UK Centre for Materials Education who helped with the organisation.
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The following report is from the 17th August 2006 joint meeting of the CETIS Metadata and Digital Repository SIG and the <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/UK" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/UK" rel="nofollow">Metadata for Education Group</a>, held in Glasgow, on the UK LOM Core. Report by <a href="/User:Philb" title="User:Philb">Phil Barker</a>, based in part on notes taken by Lorna Campbell.
</p><p>A <a href="/17th_August_2004%2C_Glasgow#Attendees" title="17th August 2004, Glasgow">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report.
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<table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#About_the_UK_LOM_Core"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">About the UK LOM Core</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Issues_arising_from_the_second_draft"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Issues arising from the second draft</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#What_is_the_UK_LOM_Core_for.3F"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">What is the UK LOM Core for?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Mandatory_elements"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Mandatory elements</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Null_values"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Null values</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#vCard"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">vCard</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Rights_category"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">Rights category</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Other_comments"><span class="tocnumber">3.6</span> <span class="toctext">Other comments</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Possible_future_developments"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Possible future developments</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#XML_binding_and_instance_validation"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">XML binding and instance validation</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Becta_update"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Becta update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#UK_LOM_Core_and_BSI"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">UK LOM Core and BSI</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#What_next:_additional_actions"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">What next: additional actions</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="Introduction"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Introduction</span></h2>
<p>Most of the agenda for this meeting was based on issues that had been raised on the <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cetis-metadata.html" class="external text" title="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cetis-metadata.html" rel="nofollow">CETIS Metadata JISCmail discussion list</a> during July and August. The JISCmail discussion of each issue was summarised in an email circulated before the meeting which provided the starting point for discussion at the meeting; links to these emails are available at the appropriate point in these notes. The remainder of the agenda covered possible future developments for the UK LOM Core.
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<a name="About_the_UK_LOM_Core"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">About the UK LOM Core</span></h2>
<p>Lorna Campbell, one of the authors of the UK LOM Core, gave a brief introduction to the UK LOM Core, where it came from, who developed it and why.
</p><p>The UK LOM Core started out as a research oriented task undertaken by Lorna and Gerry Graham of LT Scotland, who carried out a survey to establish which LOM elements were most widely used in UK Education. It was then used as the basis of advice on which elements should be used by projects in UK Education wishing to share their metadata, and at this point started to include advice on how those elements should be interpreted. It was (and still is) expected that projects and services would create an application profiles based on the UK LOM Core rather than use the UK LOM Core as it stands.
</p><p>Lorna noted that since the UK LOM Core had grown from a survey of existing practice into advice for encouraging good practice in a fairly ad hoc manner, at no time were use cases collected. Many of the problems to be discussed at this meeting might be resolved by collecting use cases for the UK LOM Core.
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<a name="Issues_arising_from_the_second_draft"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Issues arising from the second draft</span></h2>
<p><i>The notes I made on the day don't always make it clear who said what; sorry about the unattributed comments which result from this.</i>
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<a name="What_is_the_UK_LOM_Core_for.3F"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">What is the UK LOM Core for?</span></h3>
<p>The introduction to draft 2 of the UK LOM Core states why the work was started, not what it is for. What kind of resources is it for? (It has been used for assessment items, web sites and courses.) Is it to facilitate technical interoperability? Is it to facilitate the discovery of resources for teaching and learning? If it is to cover a wide range of possible uses does it need to be more flexible, allowing different levels of implementation?
</p><p>Sarah Currier and Jane Barton felt that the focus of the UK LOM Core should be on exchange of metadata, not on how projects should handle their internal metadata workflow. Interoperability does not rely on everyone using the same standard, it only requires that when you're describing the same characteristics they can be exchanged. If the LOM doesn't meet the needs of a particular project they can use something else, but still be able to exchange metadata with other projects using the LOM. The global needs met by the LOM should not interfere with the specific requirements of a project.
</p><p>In this way problems with describing specific resources (e.g. questions, physical resources) need to be dealt with by projects but are not necessarily the concern of the UK LOM Core.
</p><p>Barry Kruger: It is important to manage people's expectations, saying it will facilitate interoperability could be dangerous. People might think that they can create a minimal UK LOM Core record and then be able to submit that record to Curriculum Online, NLN etc. It would be more appropriate to say it will predicate interoperability but will not necessarily guarantee it.
</p><p>Jane Barton suggested we clarify what the UK LOM Core is for from service and data providers' points of view.
</p><p>Mike Collett asked whether there would be a conformance statement, and Ben Ryan said that conformance statements needed to be built in right from the start. John Bell offered to profile UK Lom Core in phase 2 of Telcert (starting in January) so that conformance tests can be built. [See also Ben Ryan's presentation on XML bindings and validation below]
</p><p>For the next version of the UK LOM Core:
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<ul><li> Rewrite introduction to clarify what UK LOM Core is for (and not for), rather than how it was developed.
</li><li> Identify the kind of resources UK LOM Core is applicable to.
</li><li> Explain that the profile is designed to facilitate exchange and interoperability not internal workflow process.
</li><li> Define interoperability in this context.
</li></ul>
<p>For more details, see the <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=2712" class="external text" title="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=2712" rel="nofollow">JISCmail discussion summary</a>.
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<a name="Mandatory_elements"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Mandatory elements</span></h3>
<p>The summary suggests that there may be a need multiple / optional sets of mandatory elements and different levels of conformance for different types of resources of different project needs. John Bell gave an example of a project in Mexico using HarvestRoad which took this approach.
</p><p>Jane Barton said that the UK LOM Core should facilitate semantic interoperability, whether an element and its value are there or not should be determined by the application. However, Barry Kruger said that SMEs want to be told which elements and vocabularies they should be using.
</p><p>The beneficiaries of the UK LOM Core are (hopefully) the user community who need to be able to find resources: what do they need by way of metadata elements that must be present to search on, and what will cause them problems by way of requiring that semantically nonsensical metadata is generated for a mandatory field? What is the loosest community of practice for which you can define mandatory elements? Really need use cases to answer these questions.
</p><p>Several people suggested variations on the theme of having two ways of applying the UK LOM Core: content Vs structural or semantic Vs syntactic; i.e. conforming to the element guidelines and definitions and producing a record that conformed to the mandatory elements.
</p><p>For the next version of the UK LOM Core:
</p>
<ul><li> Divide UK LOM Core into two parts: guidelines, and profile of mandatory and recommended elements.
</li><li> Re-organise document to reflect this change.
</li><li> Conformance statement: implementers may comply with guidelines or conform to profile.
</li><li> Status of all elements remains unchanged.
</li></ul>
<p>For more details, see the <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=3258" class="external text" title="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=3258" rel="nofollow">JISCmail discussion summary</a>.
</p>
<a name="Null_values"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Null values</span></h3>
<p>Ben Ryan said that if you had mandatory values you needed to allow null values; the only question was what the null value for each mandatory element should be.
</p><p>For the next version of the UK LOM Core:
</p>
<ul><li> Null values are acceptable for all implementations conforming to the profile.
</li><li> Null values for mandatory elements must be reviewed on a case by case basis.
</li></ul>
<p>For more details, see the <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=2823" class="external text" title="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=2823" rel="nofollow">JISCmail discussion summary</a>.
</p>
<a name="vCard"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">vCard</span></h3>
<p>All agreed with the solution proposed by Chris Hubick and summarised by Andy Powell. Ben Ryan commented that the lack of an XML binding for vCards was a real problem.
</p><p>For the next version of the UK LOM Core:
</p>
<ul><li> Update vCard guidelines to reflect the solution proposed by Chris Hubick.
</li></ul>
<p>For more details, see the <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=2931" class="external text" title="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=2931" rel="nofollow">JISCmail discussion summary</a>.
</p>
<a name="Rights_category"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Rights category</span></h3>
<p>End users express a wish that this information be present to inform their choice of resources, however to be useful the information needs to be accurate and up to date.
</p><p>Rob Tice said that for Curriculum Online, a set of extensions had been provided to meet the need of describing restrictions placed on the use of the resource. Rowin Cross pointed out that in the IMS QTI 2 specification was ambivalent about the presence of rights metadata.
</p><p>Charles Duncan suggested that a reference to a rights statement in, e.g. ODRL, would be useful, but that since the rights.description element was a langstring not a URI, it seemed that this was not the place to put it. Charles also suggested that the addition of a role of "Rights Holder" to the lifecycle.contributer element would solve many problems.
</p><p>There was a fair amount of discussion over the interpretation of the vocabulary ('yes', 'no') provided by the LOM for elements rights.cost and rights.copyright and other restrictions, and whether the latter should be read as referring to the existence of copyright or copyright restrictions.
</p><p>For more details, see the <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=3033" class="external text" title="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0408&amp;L=cetis-metadata&amp;T=0&amp;F=&amp;S=&amp;P=3033" rel="nofollow">JISCmail discussion summary</a>.
</p><p>The issue remained unresolved.
</p><p><b>For the next version of UK LOM Core:</b>
</p>
<ul><li> Record issue as 'unresolved'.
</li><li> Update guidelines to clarify that UK LOM Core assumes standard UK copyright applies by default.
</li><li> Maintain status quo but make 6.3 conditional on either 6.1 or 6.2 being 'yes'.
</li><li> Add the term 'rights holder' to lifecycle.contribute vocabulary.
</li><li> Add appendix with Curriculum Online and CELEBRATE rights extensions.
</li></ul>
<a name="Other_comments"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Other comments</span></h3>
<p>Sarah Currier suggested that the guidelines in the UK LOM Core should not contain assertations about who should create the metadata as, for example, is the case with element 1.5 general.keywords in the current draft.
</p><p>Other comments are welcome by email, it was suggested that a "working copy" of the latest draft document be made available in order to avoid duplication of comments.
</p>
<a name="Possible_future_developments"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Possible future developments</span></h2>
<a name="XML_binding_and_instance_validation"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">XML binding and instance validation</span></h3>
<p>Ben Ryan gave a presentation describing approaches to enabling the validation of UK LOM Core instances. He has created a W3C XML Schema for the UK LOM Core and will produce a RelaxNG schema. Validating instances bound with these schema requires that one check that the XML is well-formed, that the structure conforms to the schema, that the content is valid and that the correct vocabulary is used. The possible tools for validation are DTDs or Schema, programmatic validation, XSLTs and Schematron. DTDs lack support for some advanced constructs, and Schema lack support for XML entities; programmatic validation requires advanced skills.
</p><p>The approach Ben has taken is to perform the basic structural validation using DTDs and schema, to use Schematron for more advanced structural validation and to use XSLTs for the content and vocabulary validation. Schematron is designed to validate XML content using rules that can be either mandatory or recommended. Having vocabularies specified in VDEX along with some simple conventions, allows scripts using XSLT to compare the vocabulary used in XML instances to be compared with those in the vocabulary file. This approach supports phased validation: one can define what is required at different stages of the metadata creation workflow.
</p><p>Ben will make all the DTDs, schemas, applications etc. which he has used available to others who wish to take a similar approach. Ben and TELCERT are to liaise.
</p>
<a name="Becta_update"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Becta update</span></h3>
<p>Barry Kruger gave a brief update on developments at Becta, notably concerning version 3 of their tagging tool. This version is modular and uses config files to define the application profile being used; validation rules are specified using XML schema, with separate vocabulary validation.
</p>
<a name="UK_LOM_Core_and_BSI"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">UK LOM Core and BSI</span></h3>
<p>Mike Collett, who is chair of BSI IST/43, gave an overview of how a document such as the UK LOM Core can be taken forward through the BSI and what the pros and cons of doing so are. The BSI publish standards, guidelines and "publicly accessible specifications" (i.e. work from outwith the BSI). The advantages of doing so are that the document carries more weight, it is more likely to be adopted by government agencies and BSI will cover the maintenance. The disadvantages are that the BSI process could change the work and, while one doesn't have to pay to use the standard, BSI would charge for paper copies of the standard.
</p><p>It should be possible, if we desired, to create a multipart standard from the UK LOM Core. Since small standards are considered better than monolithic behemoths, a viable approach might be to standardise stable vocabularies such as the UKEL first.
</p>
<a name="What_next:_additional_actions"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">What next: additional actions</span></h2>
<p>Lorna will publish the next version of the UK LOM Core by the end of December 2004.
</p><p>A running draft of version 0.2 will be posted so that the community can view known issues and typos and so avoid duplication.
</p>
<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
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<td>Michael Aherne</td><td></td><td>Reid Kerr College
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS Metadata</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
</td></tr>
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<td>Jane Barton</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
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<td>John Bell</td><td> </td><td>UfI
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<td>Ian Bird</td><td> </td><td>Scottish UfI Limited
</td></tr>
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<td>Lorna Campbell</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
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<td>Marc Campbell</td><td> </td><td>Lauder College
</td></tr>
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<td>Mike Collett</td><td> </td><td>Schemeta
</td></tr>
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<td>Rowin Cross</td><td>CETIS Assessment SIG</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>Stòr Cùram Project</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
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<td>Charles Duncan</td><td> </td><td>Intrallect
</td></tr>
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<td>Jim Everett</td><td> </td><td>Stevenson College
</td></tr>
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<td>Liz Gladin</td><td>LAWPATHS</td><td>University of Kent
</td></tr>
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<td>Ryan Hargreaves</td><td>JORUM</td><td>MIMAS, University of Manchester
</td></tr>
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<td>Jean Henderson</td><td> </td><td>Scottish Further Education Unit
</td></tr>
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<td>Nik Jewell</td><td>LTSN-PRS</td><td>Higher Education Academy/University of Leeds
</td></tr>
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<td>Pete Johnston</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
</td></tr>
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<td>Barry Krüger</td><td>Content Management</td><td>Becta
</td></tr>
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<td>Sarah McConnell</td><td>LORE</td><td>EDINA, Edinburgh University
</td></tr>
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<td>Sheila MacNeill</td><td>CETIS Educational Content SIG</td><td>University of Strathclyde/LTScotland
</td></tr>
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<td>Chris Norrie</td><td> </td><td>Lauder College
</td></tr>
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<td>Jane Read</td><td>Connect Portal</td><td>Higher Education Academy
</td></tr>
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<td>Fred Riley</td><td>School of Nursing</td><td>University of Nottingham
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>John Robertson</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Ben Ryan</td><td>HLSI</td><td>University of Huddersfield
</td></tr>
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<td>Alan Slevin</td><td> </td><td>LT Scotland
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Sandy Smith</td><td> </td><td>Learndirect Scotland
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Rob Tice</td><td> </td><td>Knowledge Integration Ltd
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Bill Urwin</td><td> </td><td>South West Grid for Learning
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Vanessa Wolfe-Coote</td><td> </td><td>Simulacra
</td></tr></table>
<p>Many people expressed their regret that they were unable to come because of the timing of the meeting.
</p><p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations and to those at LT Scotland who helped with the organisation.
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The following report is from the 19th December 2002 Metadata &amp; Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held in Milton Keynes. Report by <a href="/User:Philb" title="User:Philb">Phil Barker</a>. Presentations are available to download, which we hope you find useful.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Welcome.2C_background_to_the_SIG"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Welcome, background to the SIG</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#News_and_announcements"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">News and announcements</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#MDR_Specifications_and_Standards_Update"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">MDR Specifications and Standards Update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#MEG_Update_.28Pete_Johnston.29"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">MEG Update (Pete Johnston)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#IMS_DRI_specification"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">IMS DRI specification</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#CETIS_MDR_SIG_Metadata_tasks_update"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">CETIS MDR SIG Metadata tasks update</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Show_and_tell_presentations"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Show and tell presentations</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#OAI_and_IMS_Metadata"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">OAI and IMS Metadata</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#EnCoRe"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">EnCoRe</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#RESL"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">RESL</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Paul_Shabajee_.28ARKive-ERA.29"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Paul Shabajee (ARKive-ERA)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#COSE"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">COSE</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Discussion_presentation"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Discussion presentation</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Education_Elements_in_the_LOM"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Education Elements in the LOM</span></a></li>
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<a name="Welcome.2C_background_to_the_SIG"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Welcome, background to the SIG</span></h2>
<p>Phil gave an introduction to the aims and activities of CETIS and the metadata and digital repository interoperability SIG. [powerpoint presentation, (45kb)]
</p>
<a name="News_and_announcements"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">News and announcements</span></h2>
<a name="MDR_Specifications_and_Standards_Update"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">MDR Specifications and Standards Update</span></h3>
<p>The vote on whether to accept the draft Digital Repository Interoperability specification will take place between 6 Jan and 17 Jan 2003.
</p><p>The IEEE are currently active in developing bindings using XML Schema (and RDF). [As was pointed out by Eddie Clarke later in the day, the IEEE 1484.12.1-2002 standard (the LOM) covers the information model only, there is currently no standard binding.]
</p><p>Phil advised IMS are involved in some "maintenance" activity for the Meta-data specification.
</p><p>Lorna added that the LOM is not likely to become an ISO standard in the near future.
</p><p>The <a href="http://www.cores-eu.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.cores-eu.net/" rel="nofollow">CORES forum</a> is addressing issues relevant to some of the problems encountered with XML bindings of the LOM/IMS Metadata by suggesting that every metadata element is assigned its own URI which will allow more flexible schemas to be used.
</p><p>IMS have changed their structure; the new structure allows "charters" under which new development work on specs can be undertaken. Work on the meta-data spec. may start up again.
</p>
<a name="MEG_Update_.28Pete_Johnston.29"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">MEG Update (Pete Johnston)</span></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/" rel="nofollow">MEG</a> is a wide ranging group of people interested in the use of metadata in the service of education, which can be joined via the email list, taking part in discussions on that list and at meetings. Also, to register your support for MEG's objectives of promoting interoperability standards, it is possible to sign up to the MEG concord-some 80 organisations have done so thus far.
</p><p>Other MEG activities are:
</p>
<ul><li> development of a common scheme for describing educational level;
</li><li> liaising with the office of the e-envoy;
</li><li> the development of an application profile register, a <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/regproj/" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/regproj/" rel="nofollow">workshop</a> on which will be held in Bath on 21 Jan 2002.
</li></ul>
<p>MEG and the CETIS MDR SIG cover similar areas, MEG is somewhat wider in that it includes schools and lifelong learners, community education, museums etc as well as HE and FE, and also that it offers a place to discuss the use of resources which were not specifically designed for education (as found in, e.g., museums). MEG and the MDR SIG are looking at ways of working more closely together, one suggestion is that we hold back-to-back meetings on consecutive days.
</p>
<a name="IMS_DRI_specification"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">IMS DRI specification</span></h3>
<p>Andy Powell gave an overview of the IMS DRI specification, describing what digital repositories are and the "interoperations" which can be supported by the spec. He compared this to the technical architecture of the Jisc Information Environment, which is similar. [Andy is the author of this architecture, he also gave a presentation to the nascent IMS DRI working group, but was not involved in the development of the spec.] The Jisc's DiVLE programme and the Jisc X4L JORUM+ project will both be test beds for digital repository interoperability (see the Jisc website, www.jisc.ac.uk, for more details on these).
</p><p>In discussion a few areas which are not in the scope of the specification were mentioned which are worth noting here: recommendations based on profiles of users of similar resources (a la Amazon); commerce issues, eg payment; identification of which repositories to search, ie collection level descriptions (UDDI was mentioned in this context).
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/presentations/cetis-mdrsig-2002-12/" class="external text" title="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/presentations/cetis-mdrsig-2002-12/" rel="nofollow">Andy's presentation</a> on the UKOLN site.
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<a name="CETIS_MDR_SIG_Metadata_tasks_update"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">CETIS MDR SIG Metadata tasks update</span></h3>
<p>The status of current SIG tasks is as follows:
</p>
<ul><li> The website is being moved to <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk" class="external free" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk</a>
</li><li> Jenny's introductory guide to metadata was circulated as her final draft on the jiscmail list and will be published by CETIS shortly
</li><li> The survey of educational metadata use has spawned a series of case studies; a draft of the first of these has been circulated on the jiscmail list.
</li></ul>
<p>Comments on the above are welcome. For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/sig_tasks.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/sig_tasks.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [50KB].
</p><p>Suggestions for new tasks were requested. One suggestion from before the meeting was a comparison of metadata from different sources, e.g. information professionals, users (teachers, learners), creators. Others suggested during the course of the meeting were:
</p>
<ul><li> A detailed guide to the LOM, developed through discussion on the jiscmail list
</li><li> A forum / register of projects and people with expertise in metadata [feel free to use the sig jiscmail list for this purpose, though this doesn't preclude us developing something more structured]
</li><li> Information on the tools available for metadata creation, storage and management
</li><li> A critique of the educational elements in the LOM and possible alternative approaches.
</li></ul>
<p>Phil will follow up these suggestions on the JISCmail list.
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<a name="Show_and_tell_presentations"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Show and tell presentations</span></h2>
<a name="OAI_and_IMS_Metadata"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">OAI and IMS Metadata</span></h3>
<p>Steven Richardson showed us how he had been able, with relatively little effort, to add OAI-PMH support to a relational database which had been designed using a schema which was related to the LOM. He has extended this support so that the Results OAI service will provide IMS records as well as the simple DC records mandated by OAI. [The major effort was in understanding the LOM, that done the OAI support was added in about a week and the extension to IMS records in another week.]
</p><p>Steven's presentation includes details of the third-party scripts he started with, and he hopes to be able to make the modified versions of these scripts available. A <a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/powell/" class="external text" title="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/powell/" rel="nofollow">paper by Steven and Andy Powell</a> has been published in Ariadne Issue 34.
</p><p>Andy Powell pointed out that while Steven describes sets OAI records being generated on the fly by a query to the SQL database, OAI-PMH is not a protocol for passing search queries: the OAI sets have to be pre-defined.
</p><p>Steve Jeyes pointed out that it is difficult to interoperate when you don't have anyone to take the records you are exposing.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/steve_r.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/steve_r.ppt" rel="nofollow">Steve's slides</a> [128KB].
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<a name="EnCoRe"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">EnCoRe</span></h3>
<p>Melanie Keady presented on the EnCoRe (Enriching Courses with Resources) project, which is funded through Jisc's DiVLE programme. She described the project and its aims and invited comment on the issues facing the project, especially the choice of standards/specs (DC, SCORM, OpenURL), metadata/content package editors, and taxonomy.
</p><p>There was discussion about the pros and cons of SCORM: on the one hand it is not designed to support much of the learning activity relevant to UK HE (it won't support IMS Learning Design), on the other hand it is stable and working.
</p><p>Andy Powell advised that DC-Dot was not designed for the type of metadata editing which the EnCoRe project was involved in. Lorna advised in favour of the use of LRN (it works reasonably well, see the content sigs report on ...) while EC-pac is being updated.
</p><p>Lorna also advised using Dewey for subject classification, though there were questions about the cost of this. The BEI Thesaurus was also mentioned as a possibility (see <a href="http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~eclts/beir.html" class="external free" title="http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~eclts/beir.html" rel="nofollow">http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~eclts/beir.html</a>).
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/melanie_keady.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/melanie_keady.ppt" rel="nofollow">Melanie's slides</a> [310KB].
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<a name="RESL"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">RESL</span></h3>
<p>David Massey presented an introduction to RESL, the re-usable educational software library, which is an OU-based project building a library of resources to support good practice in the reuse of educational software in HE. The resources in the RESL library include information about the use of educational software and the software itself. The IMS metadata schema has been used as a basis of the RESL descriptions, in particular keyword vocabularies were developed for subject, pedagogy, strategy and technology and these were encoded in the Classification section of the IMS schema (see <a href="http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?documentid=2579" class="external free" title="http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?documentid=2579" rel="nofollow">http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?documentid=2579</a>). David also gave us a demonstration of searching and browsing the <a href="http://www.resl.ac.uk" class="external text" title="http://www.resl.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">RESL catalogue</a> - the browse functionality is based on the keyword vocabularies mentioned above.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/david_massey.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/david_massey.ppt" rel="nofollow">David's slides</a> [889KB].
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<a name="Paul_Shabajee_.28ARKive-ERA.29"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Paul Shabajee (ARKive-ERA)</span></h3>
<p>Paul Shabajee gave a presentation covering similar ground to his recent <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june02/shabajee/06shabajee.html" class="external text" title="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june02/shabajee/06shabajee.html" rel="nofollow">D-Lib paper "Primary multimedia objects and 'educational metadata': a fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives"</a> (June 2002, D-Lib Vol8 No6). This is based on his experience with the <a href="http://www.wildscreen.org.uk/arkive.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.wildscreen.org.uk/arkive.htm" rel="nofollow">ARKive-ERA project</a> which is concerned with the educational repurposing of assets such as images and movies.
</p><p>The dilemma he describes is that if a resource cannot be found it might as well not exist, and in order to find resources we need metadata; however creating a metadata description can limit the people who will find the resource. For example, no one cataloguing images of birds would encode the information that birds fly, it would be taken for granted, so anyone searching for information about flight might find images of flying fish and flying squirrels, but not of birds. The context of use determines what is significant and what is trivial. Another example is that many portraits show people wearing hats which might be useful for a history of fashion course, however most cataloguers would describe the person, not the hat. Thus for the purposes of someone interested in the history of fashion these images might as well not exist. Paul's Catch-22 dilemma is:
</p><p>You don't want to (and can't) predict what your users will want to use the 'raw' multimedia assets for, but if you don't, your users can't get to the assets.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/paul_shabajee.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/paul_shabajee.ppt" rel="nofollow">Paul's slides</a> [1MB].
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<a name="COSE"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">COSE</span></h3>
<p>Eddie Clarke spoke about the use of metadata in COSE-the Creation of Study Environments VLE which is characterised by a pedagogy based around the re-use of content for learning activities. COSE 2.05 uses version 1p2p2 of the IMS metadata specification, and Eddie drew the distinction between being instance conformant and system conformant (COSE like most other VLEs is instance conformant, it can read in the metadata which it requires from a content package). How this metadata is used in COSE is set out in a <a href="http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/cosenew/metadata_used_in_cose.doc" class="external text" title="http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE/cosenew/metadata_used_in_cose.doc" rel="nofollow">report which Eddie referenced</a> (appendix F of the COSE manual).
</p><p>COSE is involved in the SURF X4L project which will drive the further use of metadata since it is focused on the exchange of content via repositories.
</p><p>Among the issues which Eddie raised are lack of consensus on conformance requirements, the need for agreement extensions and vocabularies so that interoperability is not compromised, the relationship with SCORM, and linking metadata to web pages in the way which is possible for DC.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/eddie_clarke.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/eddie_clarke.ppt" rel="nofollow">Eddie's slides</a> [38KB].
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<a name="Discussion_presentation"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Discussion presentation</span></h2>
<a name="Education_Elements_in_the_LOM"></a><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Education Elements in the LOM</span></h3>
<p><i>At a recent CETIS Content SIG meeting, Steve Jeyes (CETIS) had made a few comments suggesting that he had a low opinion of the Education elements in the LOM-he is not the only person I have heard voice this opinion. I think that any problem with describing the educational aspects of a resource is a problem at the heart of a schema specifically aimed at the description of learning resources, and so I invited him to put these criticisms up for further discussion at this SIG meeting.-Phil Baker, SIG coordinator</i>
</p><p>Steve started by showing that many of the metadata schema which have been based on the LOM and its drafts have chosen not to use many of the education elements, which suggests a problem. He went on to ask what one would want from metadata when choosing an educational resource, eg:
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<ul><li> Information and criticism, Steve drew a comparison with choosing a wine "if it is Merlot [information] and Gluck rates it highly at 16/20 [critique] I'll buy it".
</li><li> Dynamic control, Steve envisaged a student being able to say to their VLE "this resource is the right subject but I want something easier or harder " [or more visual, or more active].
</li><li> Level, eg it is necessary to specify whether a resource is a single object or an entire course.
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<p>These are just examples: there is a need to develop a set of relevant use cases to ensure metadata can support real user needs.
</p><p>Steve then went through each of the elements in the education section of the LOM and outlined some of the criticisms of them (plenty of people joined in with this). For example: the vocabulary for the learning resource type is a bit of a mish-mash terms which seem to be more relevant to books than electronic resources-there have been various attempts at improving on this; the education context is not rich enough for use within a given sector; the difficulty only has meaning if the context is well described. It was also commented that, as Paul Shabajee had shown earlier, not all education elements can be applied to all resources: difficulty and sematic density can't easily be applied to images.
</p><p>Steve pointed to Tom Carey's <a href="http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/Programs/CJLT_ERmetadata.doc" class="external text" title="http://lt3.uwaterloo.ca/Programs/CJLT_ERmetadata.doc" rel="nofollow">"Educational rationale metadata"</a> as a way of encoding the intention of the designers of learning resources. A complementary approach is the use of relevant "purposes" in the "classification" section (as RESL did).
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/steve_jeyes.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/mk_presentations/steve_jeyes.ppt" rel="nofollow">Steve's slides</a> [120KB].
</p><p><i>This was a lively and much interrupted talk, with some of the comments abovecoming from comments by other people rather than from Steve. I don't think anyone disagreed with Steve's assertion that the education section is not the strongest part of the LOM. However it is not enough to point out a failing: in order to progress we need find something better. Few people will use all the education elements, and if we are to pick and choose then it would be beneficial if we pick and choose the same elements. Consensus building is even more important if extensions to the LOM are to have value for interoperability. Hopefully, we will be able to continue discussion and consensus building through the SIG's other forums and activities.</i>
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The following report is from the 8th December 2003 Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held at the University of Hull. Report by <a href="/User:Philb" title="User:Philb">Phil Barker</a>.
</p><p>A <a href="/8th_December_2003%2C_Hull#Attendees" title="8th December 2003, Hull">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report and a <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/eval_summary.htm" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/eval_summary.htm" rel="nofollow">summary of the evaluation returns</a> is also available.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#eLearning_at_Hull"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">eLearning at Hull</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Jorum.2B_One_Year_On"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Jorum+ One Year On</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Long_Term_Retention_of_Learning_Objects"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Long Term Retention of Learning Objects</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Standards_and_Specification_Update"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Standards and Specification Update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Finder:_the_Learning_and_Teaching_Portal"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Finder: the Learning and Teaching Portal</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#UK_LOM_Core_in_intraLibrary_2.0"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">UK LOM Core in intraLibrary 2.0</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#User_needs_and_metadata_quality"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">User needs and metadata quality</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="Introduction"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Introduction</span></h2>
<p>Phil Barker gave an introduction to the day and to the aims and activities of CETIS.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/philb.intro.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/philb.intro.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [62KB].
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<a name="eLearning_at_Hull"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">eLearning at Hull</span></h2>
<p>Chris Jesshope presented a technical and pedagogical overview of the University of Hull's eLearning strategy, including a discussion of problems which had been overcome and directions which future work might take.
</p><p>Lipeng Wen, a PhD student with Chris, then gave a presentation based on his work to develop a schema driven methodology to store and manage related vocabulary terms using LOM/Dublin Core metadata.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/crj.elearnhull.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/crj.elearnhull.ppt" rel="nofollow">Chris's slides</a> [690KB] and <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/lipeng.shemadriven.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/lipeng.shemadriven.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lipeng's slides</a> [102KB].
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<a name="Jorum.2B_One_Year_On"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Jorum+ One Year On</span></h2>
<p>The Jorum+ project is funded by Jisc to scope out the requirements of a learning object repository for UK HE and FE. Steve Rogers gave details of the results of a user requirement gathering exercise which has been undertaken over the last year, and a summary of the functionality required of such a repository in the Jisc Information Environment.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/jorum.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/jorum.ppt" rel="nofollow">Steve's slides</a> [126KB].
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<a name="Long_Term_Retention_of_Learning_Objects"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Long Term Retention of Learning Objects</span></h2>
<p>Ed Barker gave a presentation detailing the metadata and repository issues which are emerging from a Jisc funded study he is engaged on into the retention of learning objects. One of the aims of the study is ensure that resources which have available for reuse remain available even regardless of whether the project which created them continues. Ed presented his ideas on how digital repository interoperability might facilitate this, and also discussed some of the barriers to this happening.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/ed.digitalpreservation.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/ed.digitalpreservation.ppt" rel="nofollow">Ed's slides</a> [46KB].
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<a name="Standards_and_Specification_Update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Standards and Specification Update</span></h2>
<p>Lorna Campbell provided us with an update on new developments in relevant specifications and standards, including IMS Resources List Interoperability, IMS Metadata, IEEE LOM XML binding (the draft binding will hopefully be available soon), IEEE Digital Rights Expression, BS8419 (code of practice for interoperability between metadata systems for learning, education and training), the UK LOM Core and Identifiers for Learning Objects.
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<a name="Finder:_the_Learning_and_Teaching_Portal"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Finder: the Learning and Teaching Portal</span></h2>
<p>Mike Clark gave an introduction to the LTSN and Jisc collaborative portal project to harvest information about learning and teaching resources for Further and Higher Education and make them available through a single portal. Portal services will include agency mappings, funding opportunities, community fora, and resource discovery of both learning materials and advice for teachers; all will be described using the UK LOM Core.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/mike.ltportal.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/mike.ltportal.ppt" rel="nofollow">Mike's slides</a> [156KB].
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<a name="UK_LOM_Core_in_intraLibrary_2.0"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">UK LOM Core in intraLibrary 2.0</span></h2>
<p>Peter Douglas of Intrallect Limited gave a preview version 2.0 of intraLibrary, their learning object repository. New features for this version of intraLibrary include full support of the IEEE LOM, support for application profiles of the LOM (including the UK LOM Core, and the facility to display multiple browse trees based on different classification schemes.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/intrallect.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/intrallect.ppt" rel="nofollow">Peter's slides</a> [75KB].
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<a name="User_needs_and_metadata_quality"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">User needs and metadata quality</span></h2>
<p>Ben Ryan of the High Level Skills for Industry project gave an entertaining talk about the metadata issues which the HLSI project has identified. While there are technical challenges, it was the human factors involved in ensuring the creation of quality metadata which had caused the most problems. Ben showed how assumptions about how resource creators would work and choices in the technology support for metadata creation could affect the quality of metadata.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/ben.hlsi.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/hull_presentations/ben.hlsi.ppt" rel="nofollow">Ben's slides</a> [146KB].
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following people registered for the meeting.
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<td>Ed Barker</td><td>CETIS/ICBL</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS Metadata</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Jane Barton</td><td>CDLR</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Lorna Campbell</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Clive Church</td><td>CETIS FE Focus</td><td>Newark College
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<td>Mike Clarke</td><td> </td><td>LTSN
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Peter Douglas</td><td> </td><td>Intrallect
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<td>Lynn Jaynes</td><td> </td><td>FENC
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<td>Chris Jesshope</td><td>Department of Computer Science</td><td>University of Hull
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<td>Pete Johnston</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
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<td>Tina Manoharan</td><td>ICBL</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Sarah McConnell</td><td>JORUM+, EDINA</td><td>Edinburgh University
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<td>Fred Riley</td><td>School of Nursing</td><td>University of Nottingham
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<td>Steve Rogers</td><td>JORUM+, EDINA</td><td>St Helens College
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<td>Ben Ryan</td><td>HLSI</td><td>University of Huddersfield
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<td>Lipeng Wen</td><td>Department of Computer Science</td><td>University of Hull
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations and to those at Hull who helped with the organisation.
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The following report is from the 1st July 2003 Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held in Bristol. Report by <a href="/User:Neil" title="User:Neil">Neil Fegen</a>. Presentations are available in PowerPoint, MP3 and combined formats, which we hope you find useful.
</p><p>A <a href="/1st_July_2003%2C_Bristol#Attendees" title="1st July 2003, Bristol">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Background"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Scope_and_Objectives"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Scope and Objectives</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Charles_Duncan.27s_Paper"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Charles Duncan's Paper</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#TSO_White_Paper_on_DOIs"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">TSO White Paper on DOIs</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Andy_Powell.27s_Paper"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Andy Powell's Paper</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#What_next.3F"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">What next?</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="Background"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Background</span></h2>
<p>Phil Barker spoke about CETIS, and its role in supporting educational technology interoperability standards, and the remit of the metadata SIG. Identifiers fall into this remit since the IEEE LOM specifies that they should be used to identify the resource which the metadata describes, and that they should be used to identify metadata records (i.e. LOM elements 1.1:General.Identifier and 3.1:­Metametadata.­Identifier). We also noted that whereas previous drafts of the LOM (including that used as IMS Learning Resource Metadata 1.2.2) had reserved a single simple element for these identifiers, the final version had adapted the catalogue element of previous versions. So the IEEE LOM identifier elements are broken down into two sub-elements: one which gives the catalogue or identifier scheme and the second which gives the entry in the catalogue or the identifier.
</p><p>It was also noted that IMS have picked up on identifiers for learning objects as an area for further discussion. Neil McLean of IMS Australia will be visiting the UK in the Autumn and a meeting will be held then to discuss the issue further.
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<a name="Scope_and_Objectives"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Scope and Objectives</span></h2>
<p>Phil B. noted that one of the complicating factors for these discussions is that identifiers have a much wider field of use than that covered by CETIS. On the other hand any scheme used for learning objects in UK F&amp;HE would have to be compatible with a wider area of applicability, e.g. the e-Government Interoperability Framework. While the IEEE LOM is important to CETIS's field of work, any identifier scheme we propose would also has to work with other metadata schemas, e.g. Dublin Core.
</p><p>Robin Wilson noted that TSO have a commercial interest in the wider governmental use of identifiers. He commented that it was useful to distinguish between identifiers per se (i.e. strings which are unique with some scheme) and the provision and maintenance of a service which makes sure that these are allocated each to a single object and provides a mechanism for resolving the location of an object (or other information relating to the object) when given the identifier. The identifiers them selves are cheap, however the maintenance and resolution services are expensive. This meeting mostly concentrated on the features of an identifier scheme (while recognising that availability of a resolving service is important in realising many of the benefits which follow from adopting a suitable scheme).
</p><p>We decided that we would most likely be able to influence the wider discussion on identifier schemes if we could show progress in a more specific application. Given the interests of the people at the meeting, the remit of the CETIS metadata SIG, and our understanding of the current needs of the UK F&amp;HE community it seemed appropriate that we limit the scope of our discussions to the IEEE LOM as used by the X4L programme[1], RDN/LTSN interoperability projects[2] and possibly the Learning and Teaching Portal [3]--or, in slightly more general terms, the application profile currently known as the UKCMF[4]. It was hoped that we could make significant progress to proposing an identification scheme for use within this context--or at least, if not a single scheme, then options which would work with each other (we agreed that any identification scheme would have to coexist with others without causing conflict).
</p><p>The desire was also expressed that through this work the benefits of unique identifiers could be made clear.
</p><p>In the papers below, the first discusses how identifiers are used, the next two discuss what identifier scheme may be used.
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<a name="Charles_Duncan.27s_Paper"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Charles Duncan's Paper</span></h2>
<p>Please note that this paper is based on a draft discussion document which pre-dates the adoption of Catalogue Entries to replace a simple Identifier element, and hence aims to make distinctions between the two. The aim of the paper is to show what the use of suitable identifiers allows us to do; that is identify a resource, identify copies of a resource, facilitate the location of a resource, identify different versions of a resource and identify the use of a resource in aggregations.
</p><p>There are issues over who can create an identifier which cannot be changed, who can create an identifier which can be changed (or added to), and changes to the metadata as a result of aggregation or changes of location. We agreed that is was essential that each identifier referred to only one resource, and that it was desirable that, within a given scheme, each resource had only one identifier.
</p><p>We spent some time working through representations of what would happen to the resource identifier, the metadata and the metadata identifier if a resource was created, uploaded to a repository, moved to another repository etc. We agreed that more example life cycles represented graphically would be a good way of communicating out thoughts on how identifiers could be useful--Phil to create examples based on the use cases in Charles's paper.
</p><p>We also discussed the potential and problems presented by section 7 of the LOM which is used to store information on relationships. For example there is a relationship between a learning object which is an aggregation of other learning objects and the objects which are part of that aggregation. These relationships are two way: in the example given there would be a "hasPart" relationship in the metadata record of the larger aggregate resource and an "isPartOf" relationship in the metadata record of the smaller resource. The ability to identify popular resources, i.e. those with many "isPartOf" relationships could be very useful, however populating both ends of the relationship in a distributed environment could be problematic. Consistent use of identifiers would help enable a "harvesting" approach to solving this problem.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/cd-identifiers.doc" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/cd-identifiers.doc" rel="nofollow">Charles' paper</a>.
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<a name="TSO_White_Paper_on_DOIs"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">TSO White Paper on DOIs</span></h2>
<p>The "Digital" in DOI stands for digital identifier, the object being identified need not be digital.
</p><p>Rob Wilson introduced us to GURP as criteria for classifying identification schemes. GURP is an acronym for Global, Unique, Resolvable, Persistent/Permanent. The TSO white paper asks whether an identifier scheme with all four elements of GURP would create a new level of interoperability, linking resources to information on rights management etc.
</p><p>The TSO run a resolution service for DOIs and are hopeful that this will be useful in applications such as rights management. Currently, in order to use DOIs for linking in a web environment a plug-in is required; it is possible that Microsoft might include native support for DOIs in a later version of Internet Explorer. For this to work the resolution service holds metadata on the resource, such as its location.
</p><p>DOIs are based on Handles[5], the difference between the two is largely that the International DOI Foundation [6] manages a system for allocation and resolution of DOIs. As mentioned above, these services are the more costly aspects of identifier systems. The metadata used by these identifier systems, and the relationship between DOI metadata and other metadata schema, is described in the Indecs Data Dictionary [7].
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<a name="Andy_Powell.27s_Paper"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Andy Powell's Paper</span></h2>
<p>Andy's paper seeks to put forward the requirements of an identifier scheme for use within the Jisc Information Environment. Of the "GURP" criteria, only Global is missing (although this is implied by context and by the requirement that the identifiers should be transportable). The feeling of those round the table was that, for the scope of discussion at this meeting, persistence over a time scale of 10-15 years was more important than permanence. There was most debate over the proposed requirement that identifiers be "usable in web browsers"--i.e. that identifiers can be used in the same way that URLs are currently used. Clicking on an identifier link, or entering the identifier in the location bar could (via a resolver service) bring up the resource itself, check the rights for using the resource, or bring up a metadata record for the resource. It was argued that a non-actionable identifier could be sent to an OpenURL resolver to achieve this. It was also argued that the proposed requirement of identifiers being URI compliant was perhaps a way of meeting other requirements rather than a first-order requirement.
</p><p>For more details, see [Andy's paper on the UKOLN site].
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<a name="What_next.3F"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">What next?</span></h2>
<p>It was agreed we should build on the use cases in Charles' discussion paper in order to illustrate the requirements and advantages of using identifiers. Phil agreed to represent some of these diagrammatically in the way which we had doing during the meeting. This work should feed into wider discussions on identifiers.
<br />Note: at this point Rob Wilson, Mike Collett, Jonathon Whiting and Steve Jeyes had to leave.
</p><p>We need to make some form of recommendation to X4L projects, LTSN/RDN partnerships etc. It was felt that we needed something more concrete than advice in the form of a list of requirements and suggested scheme which might meet these requirements. We were did not wish to mandate DOIs as the preferred identifier before the costs and benefits of using them were clear, and yet the timescales of these projects do not seem to allow much time for this. In this context a paper by Andy Powell on PURL-based Object Identifiers [8] was discussed. POIs use the Open Archives Inititiative[9] metadata identifier format, which would be in line with the use of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting in the LTSN/RDN partnerships. It was agreed that we would consult X4L, the LTSN and RDN (and the wider community involved in the Jisc Information Environment) on the use of POIs for X4L and LTSN/RDN partnerships.
Time factors
</p><p>We should report on the outcomes of this meeting at the next SIG meeting, which is pencilled in for the eng of August.
</p><p>The next version of JORUM is due in September.
</p><p>X4L will need to know about identifiers before October.
</p><p>Neil McLean will be here in October to discuss identifiers in an IMS context.
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following people registered for the meeting.
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS metadata and digital repository SIG coordinator
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<td>Ed Barker</td><td>CETIS metadata and digital repository SIG researcher
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<td>Andy Powell</td><td>UKOLN Distributed Systems and Services, JISC Information Environment
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<td>Steve Jeyes</td><td>CETIS FE Focus
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<td>Robin Wilson</td><td>TSO (The Stationary Office)
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<td>Jonathon Whiting</td><td>
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<td>Mike Collett</td><td>Schemeta
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<td>Eddie Boyle</td><td>EDINA, JORUM+ project.
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<td>Charles Duncan</td><td>INTRALLECT learning object repository
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended.
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The following report is from the 4th September 2003 UK eUniversities Worldwide Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Meeting, held in London.
</p><p>A <a href="/4th_September_2003%2C_London#Attendees" title="4th September 2003, London">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#CETIS_update"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">CETIS update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#IMS_Update"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">IMS Update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#BS8419"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">BS8419</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#UK_LOM_Core_.28and_Learning_Resource_Type_Vocabulary.29"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">UK LOM Core (and Learning Resource Type Vocabulary)</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Report_on_the_Identifiers_Meeting"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Report on the Identifiers Meeting</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#IMS_VDEX.2C_and_VDEX_Editor"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">IMS VDEX, and VDEX Editor</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Quality_Assurance_for_Metadata_Creation"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Quality Assurance for Metadata Creation</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="CETIS_update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">CETIS update</span></h2>
<p>Phil Barker gave an introduction to the aims of CETIS and the Metadat SIG, and an update on CETIS's funding and the other SIGs.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/CETIS_Intro.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/CETIS_Intro.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [62KB].
</p><p>Sarah Currier, coordinator of the CETIS Educational Content SIG (EC SIG), announced that the EC SIG is publishing a series of "briefing papers", providing introductory explanations of the specifications covered by that SIG. These are available from the <a href="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/20010809144711/viewGroup" class="external text" title="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/groups/20010809144711/viewGroup" rel="nofollow">Educational Content SIG website</a>.
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<a name="IMS_Update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">IMS Update</span></h2>
<p>Phil Barker gave an update on the current activities of the IMS groups of relevance to this SIG, including:
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<ul><li> Realignment of IMS Learning Resource Meta-data with IEEE 1484.12 Learning Object Metadata.
</li><li> IMS Resources List Interoperability.
</li><li> [IMS VDEX was covered in the afternoon].
</li></ul>
<p>The discussion afterwards raised two salient points:
</p>
<ul><li> There's a problem, that we are stuck with, concerning how to deal with current implementations of IEEE LOM metadata which use the older IMS XML binding
</li><li> RLI should be made to be consistent with RSS.
</li></ul>
<p>Lorna Campbell gave an update on work starting between IMS, IEEE and DCMI looking at ways which these bodies can work together. Her powerpoint presentation (61kB) is available. It was stressed that the LOM would be stable as a standard for at least 5 years, and that work such as this, looking into how it might develop, should not put people off using it.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/IMSupdate.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/IMSupdate.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [52KB] and <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/mdsig_040903_ottawa.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/mdsig_040903_ottawa.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lorna's slides</a> [61KB].
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<a name="BS8419"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">BS8419</span></h2>
<p>Lorna gave a brief notice on the progress towards BS8419, which aims to describe best practice for organisations writing metadata application profiles and cross-walks.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/mdsig_040903_bs8419.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/mdsig_040903_bs8419.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lorna's slides</a> [62KB].
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<a name="UK_LOM_Core_.28and_Learning_Resource_Type_Vocabulary.29"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">UK LOM Core (and Learning Resource Type Vocabulary)</span></h2>
<p>Lorna also gave an update on the UK LOM Core, an application profile of the IEEE LOM for UK use. Draft 0.1 has bee circulated, and adopted as the basis for several implementations of the LOM. Lorna is working on the next revision, which will not contain any substantial changes.
</p><p>The same presentation also reports on work by the RDN and LTSN to develop a shared vocabulary scheme for resource types which may form the basis of a recommendation for the UK LOM Core.
</p><p>Other issues raised include the use of identifiers, XML binding, and the role that this SIG could play in keeping a record of who is using which elements from the LOM.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/mdsig_040903_uklomcore.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/mdsig_040903_uklomcore.ppt" rel="nofollow">Lorna's slides</a> [82KB].
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<a name="Report_on_the_Identifiers_Meeting"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Report on the Identifiers Meeting</span></h2>
<p>Phil gave a report on the <a href="/1st_July_2003%2C_Bristol" title="1st July 2003, Bristol">SIG Identifiers Meeting</a>.
</p>
<a name="IMS_VDEX.2C_and_VDEX_Editor"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">IMS VDEX, and VDEX Editor</span></h2>
<p>Phil gave an overview of the the new IMS VDEX specification which allows the encoding and exchange of controlled vocabularies. He also gave an overview of work which Tina is doing to integrate VDEX into a metadata editor.
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/imsvdex.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/lon_presentations/imsvdex.ppt" rel="nofollow">Phil's slides</a> [68KB].
</p><p>In discussion of this, Andy Powell asked whether this new specification could do anything which couldn't be done with the existing specifications for encoding vocabularies, such as Zthes or XML Topic Maps (XTM) (and many others).
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<a name="Quality_Assurance_for_Metadata_Creation"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Quality Assurance for Metadata Creation</span></h2>
<p>Sarah Currier presented a summary of a <a href="http://www.siderean.com/dc2003/201_paper60.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.siderean.com/dc2003/201_paper60.pdf" rel="nofollow">paper she has co-authored</a> and will be presenting at the Dublin Core conference in Seattle in October. Another paper form Sarah on the subject is available on this site, as is Sarah's powerpoint presentation (2.84MB).
</p><p>For more details, see <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/usage_survey/currier_barton_2003.doc" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/usage_survey/currier_barton_2003.doc" rel="nofollow">another paper from Sarah</a> [88KB] and <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/meetings/Sep%202003%20Lon/presentations/curriermetadatasig.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/meetings/Sep%202003%20Lon/presentations/curriermetadatasig.ppt" rel="nofollow">Sarah's slides</a> [2.84MB].
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following people registered for the meeting.
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<td>Amy Aburadwan</td><td> </td><td>University of East London
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Tim Barrett</td><td> </td><td>UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
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<td>Eddie Boyle</td><td>Edina</td><td>Edinburgh University
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<td>Gayle Calverley</td><td> </td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Lorna Campbell</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Mike Collett</td><td> </td><td>Schemeta Ltd.
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<td>Sarah Currier</td><td>CETIS</td><td>University of Strathclyde
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<td>Steve Jeyes</td><td>CETIS</td><td>Newark &amp; Sherwood College
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<td>Pete Johnston</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
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<td>Brett Lucas</td><td>LTSN English</td><td>Kings College London
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<td>Tina Manoharan</td><td>ICBL</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Martin Morrey</td><td> </td><td>Intrallect Ltd
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<td>Derek Morrison</td><td> </td><td>UK eUniversities Worldwide Limited
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<td>Andy Powell</td><td>UKOLN</td><td>University of Bath
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<td>Sally Rimmer</td><td>Encore Project</td><td>University of Derby
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<td>Paul Shabajee</td><td>ILRT</td><td>University of Bristol
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<td>Adrian Stevenson</td><td>JORUM+, MIMAS</td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Lipeng Wen</td><td> </td><td>University of Hull
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<td>Sue White</td><td> </td><td>Coleg Sir Gar
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<td>Lara Whitelaw</td><td> </td><td>The Open University
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially those who gave presentations and those at London who helped with the organisation.
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</p><p>The following report is from the 28th June 2006 <a href="/Metadata_and_Digital_Repositories" title="Metadata and Digital Repositories">Metadata and Digital Repositories</a> SIG Meeting, held at the University of Bath and hosted by UKOLN. Report by <a href="/User:Neil" title="User:Neil">Neil Fegen</a>. Most presentations are also available in mp3 format, which we hope you find a useful supplement to the PowerPoint slides (even though they might be hard to follow at times).
</p><p>A <a href="/Metadata_and_Digital_Repositories/28th_June_2006%2C_Bath#Attendees" title="Metadata and Digital Repositories/28th June 2006, Bath">list of attendees</a> is given at the end of this report and a <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/eval-summary-bath.pdf" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/eval-summary-bath.pdf" rel="nofollow">summary of the evaluation forms</a> is also available.
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Introduction</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Controlling_the_flexible.2C_informal_repositories_relationship_with_institutions"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Controlling the flexible, informal repositories relationship with institutions</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#PROWE_Project"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">PROWE Project</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#DCC"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">DCC</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#DC.2FLOM_Update"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">DC/LOM Update</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#CD-LOR"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">CD-LOR</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#DICE_Project"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">DICE Project</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Defining_a_specification_for_a_high_stakes_assessment_item_bank"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Defining a specification for a high stakes assessment item bank</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Attendees"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Attendees</span></a></li>
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<a name="Introduction"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Introduction</span></h2>
<p>Phil Barker gave a brief introduction to the day and to the aims and activities of <a href="/CETIS_Wiki" title="CETIS Wiki">CETIS</a>.
</p><p>For more details, download Phil's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/philb.intro.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/philb.intro.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
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<a name="Controlling_the_flexible.2C_informal_repositories_relationship_with_institutions"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Controlling the flexible, informal repositories relationship with institutions</span></h2>
<p>Dave White presented about the SPIRE Project, talking about use of the <i>LionShare</i> system, and the benefits and drawbacks of P2P.
</p><p>For more details, download Dave's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/CetisPresSPIRE.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/CetisPresSPIRE.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_dave-white.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_dave-white.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="PROWE_Project"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">PROWE Project</span></h2>
<p>Lara Whitelaw presented on the PROWE Project, talking about using new networking tools and shared repositories to support part-time distance tutors’ professional development.
</p><p>For more details, download Lara's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/PROWE_CETIS_metadata_prs.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/PROWE_CETIS_metadata_prs.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_lara-whitelaw.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_lara-whitelaw.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="DCC"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">DCC</span></h2>
<p>Maureen Pennock talked about the DCC, highlighting the aim to solve extensive problems of digital preservation and curation, and talking about information services and advisory services provided by the DCC.
</p><p>For more details, download Maureen's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/cetis-mdr-sig-200606_mep_0f.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/cetis-mdr-sig-200606_mep_0f.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_maureen-pennock.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_maureen-pennock.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
</li></ul>
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<a name="DC.2FLOM_Update"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">DC/LOM Update</span></h2>
<p>Pete Johnston (of Eduserv) talked about work being undertaken under the auspices of Dublin Core and IEEE LTSC to map the LOM to the DC abstract model, which should allow LOM data elements to be used in application profiles that follow the DC Abstract Model and Dublin Core bindings (e.g. RDF) to be used for LOM instances.
</p><p>For more details, download Pete's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/cetismdr-2006-06.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/cetismdr-2006-06.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_pete-johnston.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_pete-johnston.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
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<a name="CD-LOR"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">CD-LOR</span></h2>
<p>Due to illness, Sarah was unable to attend the meeting, but her slides are available here. Sarah was due to present on CD-LOR, giving an overview of the project and discussing some early findings with the project.
</p><p>For more details, download Sarah's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/sarahcurrier.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/sarahcurrier.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
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<a name="DICE_Project"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">DICE Project</span></h2>
<p>Eddie Clarke presented on the DICE Project, talking about the evaluation of the d+ search tool, along with project conclusions.
</p><p>For more details, download Eddie's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/dice_june06_Bath_final.ppt" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/dice_june06_Bath_final.ppt" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint</a>
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<a name="Defining_a_specification_for_a_high_stakes_assessment_item_bank"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Defining a specification for a high stakes assessment item bank</span></h2>
<p>Defining a specification for a high stakes assessment item bank: how do UK Interoperability and Metadata Standards impact on item banking? Jenni Squire and Dave Baines talked about the UKCDR Project, where they are trying to define a specification for an item banking tool to enable the storage, exchange and analysis of high stakes assessment items.
</p><p>For more details, download Dave and Jenni's presentation:
</p>
<ul><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/CETIS_UKCDR_MDR_SIG.pdf" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/CETIS_UKCDR_MDR_SIG.pdf" rel="nofollow">PDF</a>
</li><li> <a href="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_jenni-and-dave.mp3" class="external text" title="http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/sig_meetings/BathJun2006/2006-06-28_bath_jenni-and-dave.mp3" rel="nofollow">MP3</a>
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<a name="Attendees"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Attendees</span></h2>
<p>The following people registered for the meeting.
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<table style="border:1px solid silver; margin:0.1em; cellspacing:5px" summary="Table of attendees at the meeting, showing name, role and institution">
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<td>Julie Allinson</td><td>Digital Repositories Support Officer</td><td>UKOLN
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<td>Dave Baines</td><td>UKCDR Database Officer</td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Kenny Baird</td><td>Metadata and Technical Support</td><td>JORUM
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<td>Phil Barker</td><td>CETIS Metadata and Digital Repository SIG Coordinator</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Robert Bley</td><td>Sales Account Manager</td><td>Ex Libris
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<td>Eddie Clarke</td><td>DICE Project</td><td>University of Staffordshire
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<td>Neil Fegen</td><td>Research Associate</td><td>Heriot-Watt University
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<td>Neil Jacobs</td><td>JISC Executive</td><td>JISC
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<td>Pete Johnston</td><td>Technical Researcher</td><td>Eduserv
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<td>Catherine Jones</td><td>Library Systems Development Manager</td><td>CCLRC
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<td>Shirley Keane</td><td>Web Editor</td><td>UKOLN
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<td>Mahendra Mahey</td><td>Digital Repositories Support Officer</td><td>UKOLN
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<td>Andrea Owen</td><td>UKCDR Project Manager</td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Claire Parry</td><td>LSHTM Digital Asset Project Officer</td><td>University of London
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<td>Maureen Pennock</td><td>Research Officer</td><td>UKOLN
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<td>Andy Powell</td><td>Head of Development</td><td>Eduserv
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<td>Bridget Robinson</td><td>Research Officer</td><td>UKOLN
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<td>Jenni Squire</td><td>UKCDR Project Officer</td><td>University of Manchester
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<td>Amber Thomas</td><td>Programme Manager</td><td>JISC
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<td>Dave White</td><td>SPIRE Project Manager</td><td>University of Oxford
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<td>Lara Whitelaw</td><td>Metadata Development Manager</td><td>The Open University
</td></tr></table>
<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations, and to those at UKOLN who helped with the organisation.
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This was a joint meeting of the Metadata &amp; Digital Repository and Educational Content SIGs, held in Manchester on 8 December, 2004, on METS and Topic Maps.
</p><p><small><b>Note:</b> For those using Firefox and wishing to download the majority of files on this page, it may be easier to use the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/201/" class="external text" title="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/201/" rel="nofollow">‘DownThemAll’ extension</a>, which can download several files in a queue.</small>
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<a name="Presentations"></a><h2> <span class="mw-headline">Presentations</span></h2>
<ul><li> <a href="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/Hoel_Nordeng_2004-12-08.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/Hoel_Nordeng_2004-12-08.pdf" rel="nofollow">Topic Maps - the Norwegian Experience</a>, Tore Hoel (Norwegian eStandards Project), Tommy Nordeng (Cerpus)
</li><li> <a href="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/CETIS%202004%2012%2008.ppt" class="external text" title="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/CETIS%202004%2012%2008.ppt" rel="nofollow">Topic Maps: some applications</a>, Derek Hoy (Glasgow Caledonian University)
</li><li> <a href="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/WKieeeRamlet.ppt" class="external text" title="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/WKieeeRamlet.ppt" rel="nofollow">IEEE LTSC content aggregation</a>, Wilbert Kraan (CETIS)
</li><li> <a href="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/richard.ppt" class="external text" title="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/richard.ppt" rel="nofollow">METS: Implementing an integrated metadata strategy for the digital library</a>, Richard Gartner (Oxford University Library Services)
</li><li> <a href="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/METS_yn_LiGC_CETIS2.ppt" class="external text" title="http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/educational_content/past_meetings/11th_meeting/METS_yn_LiGC_CETIS2.ppt" rel="nofollow">METS at the National Library of Wales/METS yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru</a>, Lyn Lewis Dafis (National Library of Wales).
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<p>Many thanks to all who attended, especially to those who gave presentations and to those at Manchester Computing who helped with the organisation.
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